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Forsaken Monument

Legendary Artifact

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{5}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Zendikar Rising Promos
Price
$5.27
EDHREC rank
#869
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Forsaken Monument card art
Forsaken Monument turns every colorless mana source into a two-for-one and drains opponents every time you tap one — that's an engine stapled to an artifact, not just a ramp piece. Decks built around Basalt Monolith or Ulalek, Fused Atrocity treat it as a core piece, not a luxury.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity

90.1% of decks · synergy 0.83

Ulalek, Fused Atrocity runs almost exclusively colorless spells, so Forsaken Monument's mana doubling applies to nearly every land and rock on the board — it's the kind of acceleration that lets Ulalek's triggered ability fire a full turn early and repeatedly.

02
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

47.5% of decks · synergy 0.44

Leonardo da Vinci churns out artifact tokens that all produce colorless mana, and Forsaken Monument turns that artifact production into a life-drain clock while doubling the output of every tapped Thopter or Construct.

03
Sai, Master Thopterist

Sai, Master Thopterist

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.36

Sai, Master Thopterist floods the board with 1/1 Thopter tokens that tap for colorless, and Forsaken Monument converts each tap into bonus mana and a ping — the monument's life-drain trigger scales directly with how many tokens Sai generates.

04
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite

27.9% of decks · synergy 0.27

Herigast, Erupting Nullkite wants to cast and replay huge colorless spells, and Forsaken Monument's doubling effect shaves a full turn off the setup time for Herigast's biggest threats.

05
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

31.4% of decks · synergy 0.24

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch untaps a swarm of Myr each combat, and Forsaken Monument turns every one of those untap triggers into floating mana and life-drain damage — the wider the Myr board, the more oppressive the monument becomes.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Forsaken Monument earns its keep — the 100-card singleton format gives colorless artifact decks enough critical mass of colorless producers to make the mana doubling back-breaking as early as turn four or five. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but sees essentially no play; five mana is too slow for formats that end games before a static mana-doubler does meaningful work. Legacy and Vintage have the same problem compounded by the presence of broken fast mana that makes Monument look pedestrian. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where a colorless-focused shell could squeeze real value out of it, though the card still needs a dedicated artifact gameplan to justify the investment.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Forsaken Monument is out of reach, Heraldic Banner and Semblance Anvil each offer a narrower version of the cost-reduction or mana-acceleration effect at under a dollar, though neither generates life-drain or doubles mana across all colorless sources. The honest trade-off is that no single card fully replicates what Forsaken Monument does — you're really replacing one card with two separate pieces to cover the ramp and the payoff.

Price Context

Current price

$5.27 mid tier

At $5.27, Forsaken Monument sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that it belongs in any colorless-heavy Commander deck without much budget debate. It's a staple in its niche rather than a broadly played card, so the price is stable rather than speculative.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.