Aether Vial
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1640 · Rare · Artifact
Mana cost: {1}
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}: 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.
Illustrated by Rovina Cai · Released April 8, 2024
Prices
- Nonfoil: $9.79 USD · €8.63 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $0.03 USD (0.3%) to $9.79 USD; low $9.73 USD, high $9.83 USD.
Printings
- Mystery Booster 2 #216 (MB2) · Uncommon · 2024 · $1.86 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1640 (this printing) · Rare · 2024 · $9.79 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #1640★ (SLD) · Rare · 2024 · $10.30 USD foil
- Magic Online Promos #102329 (PRM) · Rare · 2022
- Double Masters 2022 #298 (2X2) · Rare · 2022 · $3.23 USD
- Double Masters 2022 #391 (2X2) · Rare · 2022 · $3.38 USD
- Double Masters 2022 #555 (2X2) · Rare · 2022 · $6.20 USD etched
- The List #DST-91 (PLST) · Uncommon · 2021 · $3.99 USD
- Pro Tour Promos #2020-3 (PPRO) · Rare · 2020
- Iconic Masters #212 (IMA) · Rare · 2017 · $3.71 USD
- Kaladesh Inventions #6 (MPS) · Special · 2016 · $110.77 USD foil
- Modern Masters #197 (MMA) · Rare · 2013 · $3.95 USD
- Magic Online Theme Decks #B27 (TD0) · Uncommon · 2010
- From the Vault: Relics #1 (V10) · Mythic · 2010 · $5.90 USD foil
- Darksteel #91 (DST) · Uncommon · 2004 · $4.24 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2017-11-17 · wotc — If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 2017-11-17 · wotc — If a card in a player's hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.