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Vedalken Orrery

Artifact

You may cast spells as though they had flash.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{4}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Double Masters 2022
Price
$19.65
EDHREC rank
#1412
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Vedalken Orrery card art
Vedalken Orrery turns every spell you own into an instant, which means holding up interaction while advancing your board is no longer a choice you have to make. At four mana for a colorless artifact, it slots into virtually any Commander deck that wants to operate at instant speed — and commanders like Fire Lord Zuko and Ulalek, Fused Atrocity that care about casting spells in sequence get disproportionate mileage from it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Fire Lord Zuko

Fire Lord Zuko

38.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Fire Lord Zuko triggers off casting noncreature spells, and Vedalken Orrery lets you chain those triggers on opponents' turns, keeping mana open for combat tricks and removal while still accruing value. The result is a threat that's nearly impossible to play around.

02
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer

26.1% of decks · synergy 0.24

Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time you cast a face-down creature each turn — and Vedalken Orrery makes every opponent's turn a new opportunity to collect that draw while leaving shields up. It effectively multiplies the number of free card draws you see per rotation of the table.

03
Fire Lord Azula

Fire Lord Azula

23.8% of decks · synergy 0.21

Fire Lord Azula wants to cast spells on every player's turn to maximize trigger density, and Vedalken Orrery is the cleanest enabler for that game plan. Flash on your entire hand means you never tap out and never lose the threat of instant-speed interaction.

04
Maralen, Fae Ascendant

Maralen, Fae Ascendant

22.8% of decks · synergy 0.20

Maralen, Fae Ascendant controls what players can search for, and Vedalken Orrery lets you deploy that control and other lock pieces at instant speed before opponents can respond during their own upkeep. The flash window turns a fragile combo commander into something much harder to disrupt.

05
Gandalf of the Secret Fire

Gandalf of the Secret Fire

20.4% of decks · synergy 0.20

Gandalf of the Secret Fire cares about casting instant and sorcery spells during other players' turns, and Vedalken Orrery effectively converts your entire hand of sorceries into fuel for that trigger. The synergy score here reflects how directly the Orrery enables Gandalf's core payoff.

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 where Vedalken Orrery earns its keep — a four-player game with four draw steps per round means flash on your whole hand is a sustained advantage, not a one-time trick. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but sees essentially no play; dedicated instant-speed strategies in those formats either use cheaper enablers or don't need the effect at all. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's multiplayer structure that Vedalken Orrery is a viable include there too, for the same reasons. Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, which doesn't matter in practice — this card was designed for the kind of long, interactive game that Commander delivers.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

569 decks
Ulalek, Fused AtrocityDrowner of Truth // Drowned JungleVedalken Orrery

Ulalek, Fused AtrocityDrowner of Truth // Drowned JungleVedalken Orrery

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite copies of abilities you control on the stack; Infinite copies of a specific creature

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Leyline of Anticipation does the same thing for the same mana cost and is meaningfully cheaper, making it the first swap to consider if $20 is too steep. Emergence Zone is a one-shot version on a land — free to include alongside Vedalken Orrery or as a partial substitute when budget is tight — but the single-use limitation means it replaces roughly one turn of what the Orrery provides permanently.

Price Context

Current price

$19.65 mid tier

At $19.65, Vedalken Orrery sits in mid-tier pricing for Commander staples — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate purchase, not so expensive it breaks a budget. It has been reprinted several times, which has kept the price from climbing higher; that reprint history also makes a further price drop plausible over time, though it's unlikely to get cheap enough to feel trivial.

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