Aether Vial
Darksteel 91 • uncommon
- Set
- Darksteel
- Collector number
- 91
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Greg Hildebrandt
- Market price
- $4.41
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
tap: 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.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Aether Vial was first introduced in the 2004 Darksteel expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. It was designed during a period when Wizards of the Coast was exploring the synergy between artifacts and creature-heavy strategies, providing players with a recurring method to cheat creatures into play without paying their mana costs or worrying about counterspells. Its utility allowed it to transcend its uncommon rarity, becoming a fundamental engine in competitive formats like Legacy and Modern.
The card’s visual identity was crafted by Greg Hildebrandt, one of the famous Brothers Hildebrandt, whose work is renowned for its high-fantasy aesthetic and painterly detail. Hildebrandt’s illustration depicts a glowing, ethereal vessel capturing raw magical energy, effectively capturing the card's function as a storage device for creatures. Upon its release, the card was recognized for its deceptive simplicity, as it offered a level of board control and tempo advantage that shifted the trajectory of creature-based decks for years to follow.
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