The Battlefield

Ashnod's Altar

$12.18

Pitiless Plunderer

$1.67

Reassembling Skeleton

$0.11

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Ashnod's Altar + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton

Overview

If you sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton to Ashnod's Altar, the creature is moved to your graveyard as part of paying the Altar’s cost and . That dying event triggers Pitiless Plunderer, which creates a Treasure when the trigger resolves. After the Altar and the Plunderer trigger resolve you can pay Reassembling Skeleton’s graveyard ability ( {1}

) using one of the Altar’s {C}

for the

and sacrificing the Treasure for {B}

, returning the Skeleton. Each full cycle nets one colorless mana, so the combo can be repeated to produce arbitrarily large amounts of colorless mana (given the oracle texts provided).

Step 1

Activate Ashnod’s Altar’s ability, choosing to sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton as the activation cost; sacrificing the creature moves it from the battlefield to your graveyard as part of paying that cost and the card is placed in your graveyard .

Step 2

When the Skeleton is put into the graveyard, Pitiless Plunderer’s triggered ability (Whenever another creature you control dies...) triggers and is put on the stack.

Step 3

The Altar’s activated ability is also on the stack (it was activated to sacrifice the creature) and will add {C}

to your mana pool when it resolves.

Step 4

Let triggers/abilities resolve (or order them as permitted). When Pitiless Plunderer’s trigger resolves it creates a Treasure token; when Ashnod’s Altar’s ability resolves it adds {C}

to your mana pool.

Step 5

Activate Reassembling Skeleton’s graveyard ability by paying {1}

; pay the

from one of Ashnod’s Altar’s colorless mana and pay the {B}

by sacrificing the Treasure for one mana of any color. The Skeleton returns to the battlefield tapped.

Step 6

After the return, you have spent one of the Altar’s C and the Treasure’s mana but still have one colorless from the Altar left in your pool, i.e. a net + {C}

per full sacrifice/return cycle. Repeat the loop to generate more colorless mana.

Resolution

Sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton to Ashnod’s Altar moves it from the battlefield to your graveyard as part of the Altar’s activation cost (; see also ). That event causes Pitiless Plunderer’s trigger to be put on the stack, producing a Treasure token when it resolves. After the Plunderer trigger and the Altar ability resolve you can pay {1}

to return the Skeleton from your graveyard using one of Ashnod’s Altar’s {C}

for

and the Treasure’s mana for {B}

. Each complete sacrifice+return cycle leaves you with one net {C}

, so the loop can be repeated to generate infinite colorless mana under the given oracle texts.

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