Cold Storage
Artifact
: Exile target creature you control.
Sacrifice this artifact: Return each creature card exiled with this artifact to the battlefield under your control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.51
- EDHREC rank
- #21179
Cold Storage turns any artifact deck into a flicker engine — exile your creatures to dodge a board wipe, then sacrifice the Storage to get them all back at instant speed. The three-mana activation cost per creature stacks up fast, but the payoff is a simultaneous mass return that can rebuild a board state in a single end step.
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 |
Cold Storage is a Commander card through and through — its value scales with creature count and the prevalence of board wipes, both of which peak in multiplayer. Legacy and Vintage have access to it, but the three-mana-per-creature activation is laughably slow against those formats' threat density, and it sees no play there. In Commander, the sweet spot is a deck that can protect Cold Storage until the moment it matters: exile creatures in response to a wipe, then cash it in during the end step before your turn to re-enter combat swinging.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.51 bulk tier
At $0.51, Cold Storage is firmly bulk — a low-risk pickup for any artifact or flicker-adjacent Commander deck. Niche enough that demand stays low, so don't expect the price to move unless a prominent commander breaks the card wide open.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.