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Aether Vial

Card Name

Aether Vial

Mana Cost

1

Type

Artifact

Rarity

Special

rules Text

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Aether Vial.: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Aether Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(11/17/2017)
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.
(11/17/2017)
If a card in a player's hand has
X
 in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.