Vectis Silencers
Artifact Creature — Human Rogue
: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. (Any amount of damage it deals to a creature is enough to destroy that creature.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shards of Alara
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30873
Vectis Silencers puts a repeatable -1/-1 counter on any target creature at the cost of paying one mana and discarding an artifact — a narrow, resource-intensive effect that asks too much for too little. Outside of dedicated artifact-discard synergy engines, the rate is bad.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vectis Silencers sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where the effect is far too slow and conditional to matter. In Commander, it finds its only real home in artifact-heavy decks that want to discard artifacts for value — Esper or Grixis builds centered on recursion or unearth synergies — but even there it competes against strictly better -1/-1 counter payoffs. Pauper is the one format where the card technically qualifies, though the mana-plus-discard cost keeps it off any serious list.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Vectis Silencers is deep bulk — the kind of card that sits in a box and never moves. Nothing about its power level or demand profile suggests the price goes anywhere but flat.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.