Bontu's Monument
Mana value3TypeLegendary Artifact
Color identity
Colorless
RarityUncommon
SetDominaria United Commander (DMC)
ArtistJonas De Ro
Price€3.45 · $4.45About this card
Bontu's Monument is an artifact card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: colorless). First printed in Amonkhet (2017); 4 paper printings in total. It is one of the 1,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 658). Legal in Commander, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €2.50 (Foundations Commander); most expensive: €3.45 (Dominaria United Commander).
Bontu's Monument
less to cast.Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
"The worthy shall strive for greatness. Supremacy in life leads to supremacy in the afterlife." —Monument inscription
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Rulings
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
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
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.
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.
