Elkin Bottle
Artifact
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: Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Deckmasters
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #29613
Elkin Bottle gives you a repeatable impulse draw for three mana — exile the top card, play it this turn or lose it — which is slow, fragile, and costs four mana across two turns before you see a single card. Better impulse draw exists at lower cost, and the 'or it goes away' clause makes this feel like a punishment for hitting a land.
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 |
Elkin Bottle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, three mana to activate once per turn puts it far behind Outpost Siege, Valakut Awakening, or any number of efficient red draw spells. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more powerful card advantage engines, and the activated-ability model simply can't compete at those power levels. Oathbreaker is the only context where a slow, incremental effect might sneak into a budget list, but even there it's hard to justify the slot.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Elkin Bottle is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price is unlikely to move in either direction; it's too underpowered to spike and too obscure to bottom out further.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.