City in a Bottle
Artifact
Whenever one or more other nontoken permanents with a name originally printed in the Arabian Nights expansion are on the battlefield, their controllers sacrifice them.
Players can't cast spells or play lands with a name originally printed in the Arabian Nights expansion.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Vintage Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29017
City in a Bottle permanently exiles every Arabian Nights permanent your opponents control and prevents new ones from entering — a sweeper with a static lock stapled on, all for two mana. It's a niche hate piece that ranges from a dead card to an absolute backbreaker depending entirely on what's across the table.
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 |
In Commander, City in a Bottle is meta-dependent to an extreme: it blanks specific cards like Bazaar of Baghdad, Library of Alexandria effects, and any Arabian Nights creature your opponents happen to run, but most tables will never feel it. Legacy and Vintage are where City in a Bottle has historically mattered most, since both formats run Arabian Nights staples at meaningful rates — exiling a Bazaar of Baghdad on the spot while locking out future copies is a real effect. Neither Modern, Pioneer, Standard, nor Pauper are legal formats for the card, which tracks given the set's age. Oathbreaker is legal but the same caveat applies: the card is close to unplayable unless someone across from you has built around Arabian Nights cards.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available in our current feed for City in a Bottle, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for live listings before buying. Given it's a Reserved List card from Arabian Nights with extremely narrow application, copies can swing in price based on collector demand more than competitive utility — buy it only if you have a specific, confirmed reason to play it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.