Oracle's Vault card art

Oracle's Vault

Artifact MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

2, T: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Put a brick counter on this artifact.

T: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on this artifact.

Combos with Oracle's Vault

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.

  • Rocco, Street Chef Arcbound Reclaimer Clock of Omens Rith's Attendant Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite red mana
    • Infinite green mana
    • Infinite tapped Food tokens
    • Infinite white mana
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Rocco, Street Chef Arcbound Reclaimer Clock of Omens Lotus Petal Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite tapped Food tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

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

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2017-04-18

    If the card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2017-04-18

    If the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only if you have an available land play this turn.

  • 2017-04-18

    The first ability of Oracle's Vault puts a brick counter on it even if you can't or don't play the card.

  • 2017-04-18

    You may play the exiled card this turn even if Oracle's Vault is no longer on the battlefield or under your control.

  • 2017-04-18

    If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast the card.

  • 2017-04-18

    If you don't play the card, it will remain exiled.

  • 2017-04-18

    Playing a card exiled with Oracle's Vault follows the normal timing rules for playing that card. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card only during your main phase while the stack is empty.

  • 2017-04-18

    The cards exiled by Oracle's Vault are exiled face up.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Oracle's Vault, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 1
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
Kros, Defense Contractor 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Bant 1 deck

Every version of Oracle's Vault

4 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 Oracle's Vault — 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.