Vedalken Orrery
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
You may cast spells as though they had flash.
Combos with Vedalken Orrery
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.
- Mindslaver Lethal Vapors Infinite
- Target opponent skips all their future turns
- Lock
- Mindslaver Game of Chaos Infinite
- Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent
- Target opponent loses the game
- Near-Death Experience Soulgorger Orgg Infinite
- Win the game at the beginning of your next upkeep
- Near-Death Experience Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel Infinite
- Win the game
- Storm Herd Court of Embereth Infinite
- Near-infinite creature tokens
- Near-infinite damage
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist Turnabout Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana lands you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite untap of lands you control
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist Dramatic Reversal Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana nonland permanents you control can produce
- Infinite storm count
- Rootha, Mercurial Artist Early Harvest Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite mana basic lands you control can produce
- Infinite untap of basic lands you control
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2004-12-01
The controller of Vedalken Orrery can cast nonland artifact, creature, enchantment, and sorcery cards any time they could cast an instant. This includes on other players' turns and during the upkeep step, draw step, combat phase, and end step.
- 2010-06-15
This applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can only be activated "any time you could cast a sorcery".
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Vedalken Orrery, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urza, Lord High Artificer | 1 | 5 | 0% |
| The Twelfth Doctor | 1 | 4 | — |
| Sami, Wildcat Captain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zhulodok, Void Gorger | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Colorless 1 deck
- Mono-Blue 1 deck
- Izzet 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
Every version of Vedalken Orrery
6 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.

- Normal
- $17.90
- Foil
- $20.89

Inverted
- Normal
- $18.03
- Foil
- $18.61

Etched
- Etched
- $25.28

The List
- Normal
- $19.77

Conspiracy
- Normal
- $16.42
- Foil
- $30.50

Fifth Dawn
- Normal
- $21.41
- Foil
- $55.17
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Vedalken Orrery — 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.