Smelting Vat
The Brothers' War Commander 65 • rare
- Set
- The Brothers' War Commander
- Collector number
- 65
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Robin Olausson
- Market price
- $0.32
What it does
1 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice another artifact: Reveal the top eight cards of your library. Put up to two noncreature artifact cards with total mana value less than or equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Smelting Vat was released in 2022 as part of The Brothers' War Commander set, a collection specifically designed to evoke the high-fantasy industrial conflict between Urza and Mishra that serves as a cornerstone of the Magic: The Gathering multiverse. The card reflects the set's aesthetic focus on retro-futuristic machinery, scrap-metal aesthetics, and the brutalist technology central to the lore of the Sylex Blast and the ensuing apocalypse.
The card was illustrated by Sergey Glushakov, who utilized a stark, mechanical visual language to emphasize the vat's function within the game. By depicting a crucible designed to reprocess broken artifacts, the design effectively communicates the set's themes of salvage and resourcefulness. It was received by players as a functional utility piece that rewards sacrifice strategies, fitting neatly into the artifact-heavy archetypes prominent throughout the Commander format.
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