Bontu's Monument
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Black creature spells you cast cost 1 less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Combos with Bontu's Monument
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Acererak the Archlich Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite damage
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite storm count
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
- Warren Soultrader Gravecrawler Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite lifeloss
- Oathsworn Vampire Phyrexian Altar Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Enduring Renewal Blood Vassal Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Golgari Thug Phyrexian Altar Magus of the Future Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Acererak the Archlich Carnival of Souls Urza's Incubator Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite +1/+1 counters
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens
- Near-infinite colored mana
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite ventures into the dungeon
- Near-infinite storm count
- Golgari Thug Phyrexian Altar Garruk's Horde Infinite
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifeloss
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Mortuary Viscera Seer Gwenom, Remorseless Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite scry 1
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite lifeloss
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2017-04-18
Each Monument has one ability that reduces the cost of creature spells of a certain color, and a triggered ability that triggers whenever you cast any creature spell—not just a creature spell of that color.
- 2017-04-18
In a Two-Headed Giant game, the triggered ability of Bontu's Monument causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life.
- 2017-04-18
To determine the total cost of a creature spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the creature remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- 2017-04-18
Each Monument's triggered ability triggers as the creature spell is cast and resolves before that creature spell resolves. The ability will resolve even if that creature spell is countered.
- 2017-04-18
A creature spell that's multiple colors is each of those colors. For example, Ahn-Crop Champion is a white creature and a green creature, so it can benefit from either Oketra's Monument or Rhonas's Monument—or both at once.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bontu's Monument, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghoulcaller Gisa | 2 | 1 | — |
| Marrow-Gnawer | 2 | 0 | — |
| Athreos, God of Passage | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karlov of the Ghost Council | 1 | 0 | — |
| Olinda the Oblivious | 1 | 0 | — |
| Pantlaza, Sun-Favored | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sahir, Visitor in Darkness | 1 | 0 | — |
| Temmet, Naktamun's Will | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 6 decks
- Rakdos 2 decks
- Orzhov 2 decks
- Dimir 1 deck
- Naya 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of Bontu's Monument
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Foundations Commander
- Normal
- $0.50
- Foil
- —
Aetherdrift Commander
- Normal
- $3.72
- Normal
- $4.50
Amonkhet
- Normal
- $4.28
- Foil
- $19.99
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bontu's Monument — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
