Transmogrant Altar
Artifact
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, , Sacrifice a creature: Create a 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #10241
Transmogrant Altar turns any nontoken creature into a 2/2 Phyrexian artifact creature and draws a card — repeatable, at instant speed, for zero mana once it's on board. The catch is sacrificing a creature to do it, which means it only belongs in decks that want creatures in the graveyard or have a surplus to burn through; outside that context, the card disadvantage isn't worth the cantrip. Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist makes this a first-pick inclusion, but everywhere else the conditions are narrower.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist cares about creating and exploiting Phyrexian artifact creatures, so Transmogrant Altar is a direct engine piece — it feeds Ashnod's ability, replaces itself with a card, and converts any expendable creature into the artifact creature type Ashnod wants to sacrifice next.
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 |
Transmogrant Altar is a Commander card through and through — the payoff compounds over a long game with the right commander, and the 100-card singleton format gives you enough redundancy in sacrifice and recursion strategies to justify a narrow piece like this. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Pioneer, it's too slow and too conditional: spending a card and a creature to make a 2/2 and draw one is card-neutral at best and tempo-negative at worst when opponents are threatening lethal on turn four. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it either — those formats aren't looking for sacrifice fodder generators at this cost and effect level. Stick to Commander, and specifically to decks that can chain the effect repeatedly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Transmogrant Altar is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any dollar bin or throw it in a cart as a filler card. Bulk rares at this price point rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes a specific synergy into the spotlight, so don't sit on multiples expecting a spike.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.