Aether Vial, useful or not?

Commander (EDH) forum

Posted on Aug. 19, 2013, 9:29 p.m. by JWiley129

I'm running an EDH with Vorel of the Hull Clade and his ability can duplicate the counters on artifacts, aka it works with AEther Vial . However in playtesting I haven't been really lucky/good with it. Has anyone had a good experience with theAEther Vial in EDH/Commander?

miracleHat says... #2

i personally don't like AEther Vial in edh, (most of the time) there are too many creatures with a too many different mana costs to make AEther Vial worth it, in a legacy goblin deck though, have a blast with it.

August 19, 2013 9:38 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #3

AEther Vial is not an EDH card. It doesn't offer the advantage you need at the time you need it.

August 19, 2013 9:43 p.m.

10vernothin says... #4

Quicksilver Amulet will give you the free creature need

August 19, 2013 9:56 p.m.

Blakkhand says... #5

I've only seen AEther Vial once in an EDH deck, and that was a evasive weenie Edric, Spymaster of Trest deck. Generally it is a bad idea, unless you design your deck with it in mind.

August 20, 2013 12:40 a.m.

Epochalyptik says... #6

Designing a deck around AEther Vial is in itself a bad idea, and the decks that could use AEther Vial effectively are kind of low on the power curve. Weenies are severely underpowered in EDH, and they cost you too many resources to use with any kind of efficacy (assuming they aren't blown out immediately by any of the numerous sweepers prevalent in the format).

August 20, 2013 2:01 a.m.

JWiley129 says... #7

10vernothin - I would do that, but the Quicksilver Amulet would only help for 1-2 creatures in my deck as is.

Another question, could you use AEther Vial or Quicksilver Amulet to summon your commander, or is the fact your commander is in the command zone make that impossible? I currently think it's the latter, but I just want clarification.

August 20, 2013 2:26 a.m.

guessling says... #8

Those would help you cast your commander from your hand (i.e. if it got sent there from something like Cyclonic Rift ).

But if your commander wasn't in your hand, then you couldn't get it out that way.

August 20, 2013 2:30 a.m.