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"Find me cards equivalent to: Altar of Bhaal"

Equivalent cards in black artifacts with graveyard recursion:
1. Altar of Bhaal
2. Nim Deathmantle – Another artifact that returns creature cards from your graveyard for {4}, though the trigger is different (whenever a creature dies, you can pay to return it).
3. Embalmer's Tools (not recursion itself, but interacts with graveyard)
4. Whip of Erebos – Legendary artifact, {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return creature from your graveyard to the battlefield, gains haste, exile it at end step (not permanent recursion).


Reason: Few artifacts return creatures from graveyard in mono-black; Nim Deathmantle and Whip of Erebos are closest.

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Embalmer's Tools

Nim Deathmantle

Whip of Erebos

Embalmer's Tools #227 Artifact

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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 2
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities (such as embalm) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.
  • Any untapped Zombie you control can be tapped to pay the second ability’s activation cost, even one that just came under your control.
  • You can’t normally activate abilities of cards in graveyards. Those that you can activate are those that instruct you to move the card out of a graveyard, or those that specifically say that you can activate them if the card is in your graveyard.

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    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 3.99 USD
    Manapool / 1.3 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.91 EUR 0.14 EUR
    Tcgplayer 0.18 USD / 0.67 USD

    Legalities

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    Activated abilities of creature cards in your graveyard cost less to activate. Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target player mills a card.

    Nim Deathmantle #561 Artifact — Equipment

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Equip

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  • If multiple nontoken creatures are put into your graveyard from the battlefield at the same time, Nim Deathmantle's second ability triggers that many times. You put the triggered abilities on the stack in any order, so you'll determine in which order they resolve. If you pay {4} more than once, each card you paid {4} for will end up on the battlefield under your control, and Nim Deathmantle will end up attached to the last card that returned to the battlefield this way that it could equip.
  • If the nontoken creature that caused Nim Deathmantle's second ability to trigger is somehow removed from your graveyard before that ability resolves, you may still pay {4} as it resolves. Even if you do, however, no card will be returned to the battlefield.
  • Nim Deathmantle causes the equipped creature to be a black Zombie even if it didn't return that creature to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  • Nim Deathmantle's color-changing and type-changing effects override the equipped creature's previous colors and creature types. After Nim Deathmantle becomes equipped to a creature, that creature will be a black Zombie, not any other colors or creature types.
  • Nim Deathmantle's second ability may return a card it can't equip to the battlefield. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Nim Deathmantle's second ability triggers. If you pay {4} as it resolves, you'll return that card to the battlefield. However, Nim Deathmantle can't equip it, so Nim Deathmantle remains attached to whatever it was already equipping (or, if it was unattached, it remains so). The same is true if a nontoken creature with protection from artifacts is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, for example.
  • Once Nim Deathmantle becomes unattached from a creature, its color-changing and type-changing effects stop affecting that creature. The creature will no longer be black and will no longer be a Zombie (unless its printed characteristics or some other effects still cause it to be black and/or a Zombie, of course). This is true even if Nim Deathmantle returned that creature to the battlefield from the graveyard.
  • Once Nim Deathmantle returns a card from your graveyard to the battlefield, it will remain on the battlefield indefinitely, even if Nim Deathmantle becomes unattached from it.
  • You choose whether to pay {4} as Nim Deathmantle's second ability resolves. Although players may respond to this ability, once it begins to resolve and you decide whether to pay, it's too late for players to respond.

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    Tcgplayer 14.35 USD
    Manapool 13.93 USD / 13.93 USD
    Cardmarket 10.11 EUR / 7.93 EUR
    Cardkingdom 16.99 USD

    Legalities

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    Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay . If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it. Equip

    Whip of Erebos #2218 Legendary Enchantment Artifact

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 4
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  • At the beginning of the next end step, the creature returned to the battlefield with Whip of Erebos is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
  • If a creature returned to the battlefield with Whip of Erebos would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead. However, if that creature is already being exiled, then the replacement effect won't apply. If the spell or ability that exiles it later returns it to the battlefield (as Chained to the Rocks might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The effects from Whip of Erebos will no longer apply to it.
  • The exiled creature is never put into the graveyard. Any abilities the creature has that trigger when it dies won't trigger.
  • Whip of Erebos grants haste to the creature that's returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

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    Cardmarket 8.71 EUR / 13.51 EUR
    Cardkingdom / 15.99 USD 13.99 USD
    Manapool / 11.8 USD 8 USD
    Tcgplayer / 11.52 USD 8.96 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Creatures you control have lifelink. , : Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.