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Aether Vial
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Item Condition
Magic: The Gathering single: Aether Vial, from Darksteel. Our grade: Lightly Played or better. Pictured: this printing of the card. Every card ships triple-sleeved — a soft sleeve, a deck sleeve and a rigid top loader.
Item Description
Aether Vial is one mana that keeps paying out for the rest of the game. Add a charge counter each upkeep, then tap it to put a creature card with matching mana value straight from your hand onto the battlefield. Because the creature is never cast, ordinary counterspells can't touch it, it can arrive at instant speed on an opponent's turn, and your real mana stays free for everything else.
That combination has made it a long-running engine for creature-dense decks built on cheap threats, with Merfolk and Death and Taxes the most famous examples, where flashing in a two-drop at the end of an opponent's turn or ambushing an attacker with a surprise blocker can swing a game. In Commander it rewards tribal decks with tight curves, and since adding a counter is optional, you can park the Vial on the exact number your deck wants most.
This is the original Darksteel printing from 2004, collector number 91, illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt and offered here in non-foil. Hildebrandt, half of the Brothers Hildebrandt team behind the original 1977 Star Wars poster, painted the first art players ever saw on this card, and the Mirrodin-block original carries a history that later reprints simply don't.
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