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AI 🤖 Find me cards equivalent to: Netherborn Altar

Equivalent cards in black that trade life for value include:

  • Phyrexian Reclamation (trade 2 life and mana to return a creature to hand)
  • Arguel's Blood Fast (pay 2 life, draw a card)
  • Erebos, Bleak-Hearted (pay 2 life, draw a card, when opponents' creatures die)
  • Font of Agonies (pay life, destroy creatures)

None are exact, but all exchange life for some kind of advantage. Netherborn Altar specifically trades life for returning your commander, a unique effect.

Results:

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted #262 Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Variations: v1 v2

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 5/6
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  • Enchantment
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • God
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Indestructible

    Rules

  • As a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color will determine whether any replacement effects that affect creatures entering the battlefield apply to that God. Because replacement effects are considered before the God is on the battlefield, the mana symbols in its mana cost won’t be counted when determining this.
  • Colorless and generic mana symbols ({C}, {0}, {1}, {2}, {X}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
  • Counters put on a God remain on it while it’s not a creature, even if they have no effect.
  • Erebos’s last ability can target the creature you’ll sacrifice to pay its cost. In this case, the ability won’t resolve, but Erebos’s triggered ability will trigger.
  • Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
  • If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat. It won’t rejoin combat if it resumes being a creature later during that combat.
  • If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and the creature type God. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
  • If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it’s still on the battlefield at that time.
  • If an effect causes a God to lose all abilities, its ability that causes it to stop being a creature still applies if appropriate.
  • If one or more creatures you control die at the same time as Erebos, its triggered ability triggers for each of those creatures.
  • If you put an Aura on an opponent’s permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion.
  • Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
  • The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures.
  • The type-changing ability that can make a God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color. It’s always a creature spell while it’s on the stack.
  • When a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
  • While resolving Erebos’s triggered ability, you can’t pay more than 2 life to draw more than one card.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 1.54 USD / 1.87 USD
    Cardmarket 1.48 EUR / 2.79 EUR
    Cardsphere 1.42 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. ,Sacrificeanother creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

    Font of Agonies #74s Enchantment

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • An effect that causes you to pay life uses the word “pay.” If an effect allows you to choose to lose life or to be dealt damage without using the word “pay,” you’re not paying life.
  • The first ability of Font of Agonies is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn’t allow you to pay life whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of paying life, such as with Blood Crypt’s ability.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 3.11 USD
    Cardmarket 1.44 EUR
    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Whenever you pay life, put that many blood counters on this enchantment. , Remove four blood counters from this enchantment:Destroytarget creature.

    Netherborn Altar #C20-45 Artifact

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    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Artifact
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:

    Rules

  • If Netherborn Altar leaves the battlefield while its ability is on the stack, the amount of life you lose is determined by the number of soul counters it had on it immediately before it left the battlefield.
  • If you have two commanders in the command zone, Netherborn Altar’s ability puts one of your choice into your hand, not both.
  • If your commander isn’t in the command zone (or if you’re not playing the Commander variant), Netherborn Altar only makes you lose life.
  • Putting a soul counter onto Netherborn Altar is part of the cost to activate its ability, and counting the number of soul counters is done as the ability resolves. Players may take actions between those times to change the number of soul counters, perhaps by removing them all so that you lose no life.
  • The “commander tax” increases based on how many times a commander was cast from the command zone. Casting a commander from your hand doesn’t require that additional cost, and it doesn’t increase what the cost will be the next time you cast that commander from the command zone.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 0.41 USD
    Cardmarket 0.27 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.79 USD
    Cardsphere 0.39 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , Put a soulcounteron this artifact: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone. Then you lose 3 life for each soulcounteron this artifact.

    Phyrexian Reclamation #1808 Enchantment

    Info

    Color:
    Identifies:
    Cost:
    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 1
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Enchantment
    • SubTypes:
    Languages:
    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
    Saltiness:

    Rules

  • No entries

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 5.73 USD / 5.53 USD
    Cardkingdom 7.49 USD / 8.49 USD
    Cardsphere 5.24 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    , Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

    Erebos, Bleak-Hearted Legendary Enchantment Creature — God Normal - ~$1.82

    Font of Agonies Enchantment Normal - ~$2.68

    Netherborn Altar Artifact Normal - ~$0.46

    Phyrexian Reclamation Enchantment Normal - ~$6.5

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