Vibrating Sphere
Artifact
During your turn, creatures you control get +2/+0.
During turns other than yours, creatures you control get -0/-2.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #29122
Vibrating Sphere forces all creatures to attack each turn, which is a symmetrical effect that punishes passive board states and rewards whoever has the most resilient attackers. The cost is that you're locked into the same constraint — it's a slam in Darien, King of Kjeldor, where taking combat damage is the whole point, and a liability in almost anything else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vibrating Sphere is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander by a wide margin. In a multiplayer game, forcing all creatures to attack creates cascading political pressure and fills combat steps with activity that various commanders can exploit. In Legacy and Vintage, the symmetrical drawback is too costly — those formats want to control the board, not mandate chaos — and three mana for an enchantment with no immediate impact doesn't compete. Oathbreaker is a reasonable fit if your planeswalker-and-signature-spell shell wants forced-combat synergies, but the card sees virtually no play there in practice.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Darien, King of KjeldorSanguinary PriestVibrating Sphere
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Vibrating Sphere is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap singles order filler. It's a narrow enough card that the price is unlikely to move unless a high-profile Commander deck brings forced-attack synergies into the spotlight.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.