Bloodsoaked Altar
Artifact
, Pay 2 life, Discard a card, Sacrifice a creature: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Core Set 2020
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #18848
Bloodsoaked Altar turns a discard-and-sacrifice loop into a steady stream of 2/2 Zombie tokens — free, recursive pressure that compounds every turn you can feed it. The cost is real: you need two black mana per trigger, a card to discard, and a creature to sacrifice, so it rewards redundancy over raw power.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bloodsoaked Altar is a Commander card through and through — the slow, incremental engine it runs is perfectly suited to a 100-card singleton format where games go long and sacrifice synergies are abundant. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy, it's simply too slow: six mana to deploy, then two mana plus a card plus a creature every turn is a prohibitive investment when the game may end on turn four. Pioneer has the same problem — there are cleaner, faster sacrifice payoffs that don't ask this much. Oathbreaker can theoretically support it in a dedicated shell, but the smaller life totals and faster pace shrink the window considerably. Play Bloodsoaked Altar in Commander, full stop.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Bloodsoaked Altar is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. It's unlikely to spike unless a future Commander precon leans hard into Zombie sacrifice and puts it on the radar, so grab copies now if you need them and don't expect the price to move.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.