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Staff of Eden, Vault's Key

Legendary Artifact

When Staff of Eden enters, put target legendary permanent card not named Staff of Eden, Vault's Key from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
{T}: Draw a card for each permanent you control but don't own.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{6}
Color identity
C
Rarity
mythic
Set
Assassin's Creed
Price
$3.10
EDHREC rank
#5574
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Staff of Eden, Vault's Key card art
Staff of Eden, Vault's Key drops a free permanent onto the battlefield every upkeep — no mana required — and the cost is simply discarding a card, which turns a liability into a feature in decks that want things in the graveyard or loop cards like Mind Over Matter. Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter is the flagship home, where the steady stream of free artifacts or creatures feeds directly into his Treasure-generating triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter

Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter

36.0% of decks · synergy 0.35

Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter appears in over a third of all Nathan Drake decks because Staff of Eden, Vault's Key fuels his triggered ability with a free permanent every upkeep, generating Treasures without spending a single mana on the deployed card.

02
Gonti, Night Minister

Gonti, Night Minister

33.8% of decks · synergy 0.33

Gonti, Night Minister cares about spending opponents' cards and accumulating value from unusual sources, and Staff of Eden, Vault's Key provides a free permanent drop each turn that can trigger Gonti's extort-style or death-touch based synergies without touching the mana base.

03
Don Andres, the Renegade

Don Andres, the Renegade

24.8% of decks · synergy 0.24

Don Andres, the Renegade prizes free and stolen resources above all else, and Staff of Eden, Vault's Key fits cleanly into that ethos by putting a permanent into play for zero mana each upkeep while the discard outlet can even fuel recursion loops.

04
Laughing Jasper Flint

Laughing Jasper Flint

20.0% of decks · synergy 0.19

Laughing Jasper Flint builds around loading the graveyard and profiting from it, so the discard cost of Staff of Eden, Vault's Key is effectively a bonus — pitching cards to the yard while deploying free permanents is exactly the kind of two-for-one his strategy wants.

05
Rev, Tithe Extractor

Rev, Tithe Extractor

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.19

Rev, Tithe Extractor generates value from artifacts and treasures entering the battlefield, and Staff of Eden, Vault's Key delivers a free permanent trigger every single upkeep, turning the key's consistent output into consistent extortion-style income.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the unambiguous home for Staff of Eden, Vault's Key — the slow, one-per-upkeep cadence is well-suited to a 100-card singleton format where you have time to set up and payoffs for free permanents are abundant. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but competes against formats where the game often ends before the key's incremental advantage accumulates to anything decisive, making it a fringe consideration at best. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in pace and can support it in the right shell, though the smaller deck size means the effect scales down. Staff of Eden, Vault's Key is a Commander card through and through — take it there or leave it on the shelf.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

24 decks
Mind Over MatterStaff of Eden, Vault's Key

Mind Over MatterStaff of Eden, Vault's Key

Infinite self-discard triggers; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite card draw; Near-infinite untap of permanents you control; Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce

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Price Context

Current price

$3.10 cheap tier

At $3.10, Staff of Eden, Vault's Key sits in the budget-friendly tier where it punches well above its price in the decks that actually want it. Given its narrow but high-synergy homes, that price is fair and unlikely to crater as long as Nathan Drake and similar commanders stay popular.

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