Bottle of Suleiman
Artifact
, Sacrifice this artifact: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, create a 5/5 colorless Djinn artifact creature token with flying. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 5 damage to you.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Arabian Nights
- Price
- $69.99
- EDHREC rank
- #22976
Bottle of Suleiman costs four mana and one life to produce a 5/5 flying token — but a coin flip means half the time you just sacrifice it for nothing. The ceiling is real; the floor is a wasted slot and a tempo hit.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bottle of Suleiman is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in Legacy and Vintage has never wanted a four-mana coin-flip engine when faster, more reliable threats exist. In Commander, where the coin-flip subgenre has genuine tribal support, Bottle of Suleiman finds its most hospitable home — commanders like Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom and Okaun, Eye of Chaos can convert the flip itself into an upside regardless of the token outcome. Outside that niche, the card is too variance-dependent to compete for a mainboard slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Bottle of Suleiman is a coin-flip payoff first and a token producer second, so the cleanest replacements live in the same niche: Krark's Thumb doesn't make tokens but dramatically improves every flip in the deck, and Frenetic Efreet lets you stack repeated coin flips at instant speed for combo potential at a fraction of the price. If you only want the 5/5 flier, you're better served by a deterministic token producer than a cheaper flip card — the flip is the whole point of running Bottle of Suleiman.
Price Context
Current price
$69.99 premium tier
At $69.99, Bottle of Suleiman sits firmly in premium territory for a card whose competitive demand is narrow and entirely Commander-driven. The price reflects Reserved List scarcity rather than raw power, so it holds value as a collectible but is hard to justify on gameplay merit alone.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.