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Vincent's Limit Break

Instant

Tiered (Choose one additional cost.)
Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control" and has the chosen base power and toughness.
• Galian Beast — {0} — 3/2.
• Death Gigas — {1} — 5/2.
• Hellmasker — {3} — 7/2.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.10
EDHREC rank
#7983
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Vincent's Limit Break card art
Vincent's Limit Break hits the board as a transformative finisher — sac an artifact like Ashnod's Altar to fuel it, and you're converting resources into a game-ending swing. The mandatory cost is real, but in any deck built around Vincent Valentine, that sacrifice is already part of the engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Vincent Valentine

39.7% of decks · synergy 0.37

Vincent Valentine is the native home for Vincent's Limit Break — the two cards are designed to interlock, and nearly 40% of Vincent Valentine decks run it as a result.

03
Black Waltz No. 3

Black Waltz No. 3

9.7% of decks · synergy 0.08

Black Waltz No. 3 decks pick up Vincent's Limit Break as an off-brand but functional finisher — the card asks for artifacts and Black Waltz strategies often generate them incidentally.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Vincent's Limit Break is legal everywhere but built for Commander, where multiplayer life totals and longer games give it room to matter. In 1v1 formats like Modern or Legacy, the setup cost puts it well outside competitive consideration — no serious list wants a conditional artifact-sac finisher when faster, unconditional threats exist. Pioneer and Standard give it a legal home but no real role; the card simply doesn't scale to those formats' pace. Commander is the one environment where the sacrifice ceiling feels manageable and the payoff feels proportionate.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.10 bulk tier

At $0.10, Vincent's Limit Break sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a playset without a second thought. Bulk rares from cross-over sets tend to stay bulk unless a competitive format finds a use, and nothing in the format data suggests that's coming.

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