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Aether Vial

Artifact MV 1

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.

Combos with Aether Vial

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.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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 X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Aether Vial, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Urza, Lord High Artificer 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck

Every version of Aether Vial

13 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.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Aether Vial — 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.