MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #281

Altar of Bone

ice·#281·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Melissa A. Benson

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jun 1995

31 yr ago

Value

$10.75+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $10 · low $9.19

NM$9.75

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$9.01–$10modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $9.77low $4.91range 99.0%n 50

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #14,076 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil$9.75

Gameplay

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2013-04-15wotc

You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.

2013-04-15wotc

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

2004-10-04wotc

Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $9.75. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $4.91 and $9.77 across 50 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from ICE — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #281 of *Ice Age*, the set that shipped alongside the June 1995 Ice Age release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity green/white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {G}{W} (2 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #14,076 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Melissa A. Benson. Rarix catalogs 261 other cards credited to this artist.