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Vedalken Certarch

Creature — Vedalken Wizard

Metalcraft — {T}: Tap target artifact, creature, or land. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#26573
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Vedalken Certarch card art
Vedalken Certarch taps any permanent for a single blue mana — one of the cheapest tap-down effects in the game — but the metalcraft condition means it does nothing until you have three artifacts in play. Treat it as a free piece of interaction in artifact-heavy builds; in anything else, it's a 1/1 with no text.

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 legal
oathbreaker legal

Vedalken Certarch sees essentially no play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — formats fast enough that a conditional tapper on a 1/1 body never justifies a slot. Pauper is where it has the most theoretical footing, since common-legal artifact synergies can satisfy metalcraft early, but even there it competes with more reliable interaction. Commander is its best home by default: artifact commanders like Breya, Etherium Shaper or Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch trigger metalcraft trivially, and a repeatable tap effect on any permanent has real political and defensive value across long games.

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available for Vedalken Certarch at the moment, but as a common from a widely opened set it's historically been a bulk pickup — expect to pay next to nothing. It's worth grabbing a copy if you're building an artifact Commander deck, purely for the low opportunity cost.

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