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Aether Vial

{1}

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact. {T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.
Plays as:
Cheat Into Play
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality

Constructed

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal

Commander

CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal

Arena

AlchemyNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
BrawlNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
GladiatorNot legal

Other

PremodernNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
Future StandardNot legal

Used in 3 known combosEDHREC #5,846Played in 1% of all cEDH decks

Printings
13
Price range
$1.76to$110.77

Versions

13 printings · from $1.76

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Rulings

2 · latest Nov 17, 2017
  • WotCNov 17, 2017

    If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield.

  • WotCNov 17, 2017

    If a card in a player's hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.