Aether Vial card art

Aether Vial

Artifact MV 1

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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

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. 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 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is 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 —
Winota, Joiner of Forces 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Boros 1 deck

Aether Vial price history

The Double Masters 2022 #298 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$3.26▼ $0.22 (6.3%)
Low $2.94 · High $3.48Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Nov 13, 2026$3.26$3.63
Nov 12, 2026$3.26$3.63
Nov 11, 2026$3.18$3.59
Nov 9, 2026$3.16$3.59
Nov 8, 2026$3.13$3.59
Nov 7, 2026$3.06$3.59
Nov 4, 2026$3.07$3.59
Nov 3, 2026$3.10$3.59
Nov 2, 2026$3.15$3.59
Oct 31, 2026$3.14$3.63
Oct 30, 2026$3.00$3.61
Oct 29, 2026$3.04$3.61
Oct 26, 2026$2.94$3.59
Oct 24, 2026$2.97$3.59
Oct 20, 2026$3.07$3.59
Oct 16, 2026$3.09$3.59
Oct 15, 2026$3.13$3.59
Oct 14, 2026$3.17$3.59
Oct 12, 2026$3.23$3.59
Oct 11, 2026$3.22$3.63
Oct 9, 2026$3.21$3.59
Oct 8, 2026$3.22$3.59
Oct 7, 2026$3.25$3.61
Oct 6, 2026$3.29$3.61
Oct 2, 2026$3.38$3.61
Oct 1, 2026$3.39$3.57
Sep 29, 2026$3.33$3.60
Sep 28, 2026$3.48$3.60

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

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. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.

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