Altar of the Goyf
Kindred Artifact — Lhurgoyf
Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of card types among cards in all graveyards.
Lhurgoyf creatures you control have trample.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #9106
Altar of the Goyf hands every creature you control a free lhurgoyf counter at the start of combat — in a deck stacking graveyard types, that's a board-wide pump that scales fast without costing a card or a mana each turn. Disa the Restless is the natural home, where Lhurgoyf tokens flood the board and the Altar turns a wide board into a wide, threatening board.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless generates Lhurgoyf tokens that already scale with graveyard types, so Altar of the Goyf stacks directly on top of that engine — every token that gets the counter becomes a bigger threat, and the graveyard filling that Disa incentivizes is exactly what makes the Altar's bonus meaningful.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Altar of the Goyf is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is where it actually belongs. In Modern and Legacy, the graveyard-type density required to make the combat trigger worth a card slot is hard to guarantee, and dedicated Lhurgoyf strategies aren't seeing competitive play in either format. Commander's slower clock, longer games, and self-mill synergies let Altar of the Goyf accumulate real value over multiple turns in a way 60-card formats simply don't reward.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Altar of the Goyf is deep bulk — easy to pick up in any trade binder or as a throw-in. Bulk mythics with narrow synergy profiles don't tend to spike without a sudden competitive breakthrough, so buy it cheap if Disa the Restless is your commander and don't expect it to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.