Aether Vial
Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
: 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.
Commander bracket
1
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Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.43
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos 3
Aether Vial+Cloudstone Curio+Pestermite+Deceiver Exarch
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
4 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Aether Vial+Cloudstone Curio+Deceiver Exarch
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
1 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Derevi, Empyrial Tactician+Aether Vial+Cloudstone Curio+Pestermite
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
1 decks
Commander Spellbook ↗
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Not legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Rulings
- 2017-11-17
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.
- 2017-11-17
If a card in a player's hand has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.