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Altar of the Lost

Card Name

Altar of the Lost

Mana Cost

3

Type

Artifact

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

This artifact enters tapped.: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast spells with flashback from a graveyard.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(1/22/2011)
Altar of the Lost doesn't allow you to cast spells from any other player's graveyard, although you can spend the mana it produces on such spells if something else allows you to.
(1/22/2011)
You can spend mana produced by Altar of the Lost to cast any spell with flashback that you cast from a graveyard. You don't have to be using flashback to cast that spell, however, as long as something else is allowing you to cast that spell.