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Oracle's Vault

Artifact

{2}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. Put a brick counter on this artifact.
{T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost. Activate only if there are three or more brick counters on this artifact.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Amonkhet Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#12320
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Oracle's Vault card art
Oracle's Vault turns four brick counters into a free-cast engine that bypasses mana costs entirely — the payoff is enormous, but you're looking at four turns of tapping before it fires. In a commander like Rocco, Street Chef, where cheap permanents accumulate quickly, you can cheat counters onto it and get to the free-cast window ahead of schedule.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Oracle's Vault is a Commander card through and through — the four-activation ramp-up is tolerable in a 40-life multiplayer game where you have time to set up, and the indefinite free-cast engine it becomes is worth the wait in slower, value-oriented pods. In competitive Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, it's unplayable; four turns of tapping a four-mana artifact while your opponent curves out is a non-starter in any 20-life format. Oathbreaker occupies a middle ground: the format is faster than Commander but the power ceiling is high enough that Oracle's Vault can find a home in dedicated superfriends shells willing to protect it.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Oracle's Vault isn't available at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its niche role as a slow engine piece, it tends to stay affordable and is rarely a budget obstacle.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.