Ghost Vacuum
Artifact
: Exile target card from a graveyard.
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Put each creature card exiled with this artifact onto the battlefield under your control with a flying counter on it. Each of them is a 1/1 Spirit in addition to its other types. Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3693
Ghost Vacuum is a two-mana artifact that exiles cards from graveyards and converts them into charge counters you can cash in for card draw — graveyard hate that generates real card advantage instead of just blanking opponents. The cost is minimal enough that slotting Ghost Vacuum into any Commander deck that wants to contest graveyard strategies is a near-automatic inclusion, and Ketramose, the New Dawn builds around it explicitly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ketramose, the New Dawn
Ketramose, the New Dawn rewards you for exiling cards from graveyards, and Ghost Vacuum turns that into a repeatable engine — every activation stacks charge counters that convert into draws, feeding Ketramose's triggers and keeping your hand full while stripping opponents' recursion.
Quintorius, History Chaser
Quintorius, History Chaser cares about cards leaving graveyards and spells cast from exile, so Ghost Vacuum does double duty: it clears opposing yards and generates the exiled-card count that fuels Quintorius's damage and token production.
Marchesa, Dealer of Death
Marchesa, Dealer of Death wants opponents' creatures to die and stay dead, and Ghost Vacuum handles the 'stay dead' half — exiling from graveyards before recursion triggers while producing card advantage Marchesa decks are otherwise hungry for.
Gisa, the Hellraiser
Gisa, the Hellraiser fills its own graveyard aggressively, which means opponents will be packing their own graveyard hate; Ghost Vacuum flips that dynamic, preemptively stripping rival yards and rewarding the pilot with card draw while Gisa's zombie engine does its thing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ghost Vacuum earns its slot on two merits: it answers the format's most persistent threat category — graveyard value — without costing a card, since the draw stapled to it recoups the investment over time. Modern and Pioneer have more surgical one-shot options like Relic of Progenitus for specific hate roles, but Ghost Vacuum's repeated activation mode is better suited to Commander's longer game. In Legacy and Vintage the power bar is high enough that two mana for incremental graveyard pressure rarely makes the cut, though fringe Commander-adjacent Oathbreaker play finds it competitive. Standard is the one home outside Commander where Ghost Vacuum could see consistent play, since repeatable exile plus card draw on an artifact is genuinely rare at this cost.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Ghost Vacuum isn't confirmed yet, likely because it's a recent release still finding its market level. Given its broad application across Commander decks that want graveyard interaction, expect it to settle in the $1–3 range for a non-mythic utility artifact — worth picking up early if you see it at bulk prices.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.