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Vitalize

Instant

Untap all creatures you control.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$2.37
EDHREC rank
#3569
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Vitalize untaps all your creatures for one green mana — in the right deck, that's a full reset of your mana engine, your combo pieces, or both at instant speed. Marwyn, the Nurturer and Alaundo the Seer run it because a single copy can generate enough mana or card velocity to close out the game on the spot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Alaundo the Seer

Alaundo the Seer

42.5% of decks · synergy 0.42

Alaundo the Seer taps to exile cards and untaps on each upkeep, but Vitalize short-circuits that delay entirely — untap Alaundo mid-combo to chain through your deck in a single turn.

02
Selvala, Explorer Returned

Selvala, Explorer Returned

37.0% of decks · synergy 0.36

Selvala, Explorer Returned taps for mana and cards, so Vitalize effectively doubles her output for the turn — two activations instead of one is often the difference between assembling a win and falling short.

03
Marwyn, the Nurturer

Marwyn, the Nurturer

35.7% of decks · synergy 0.31

Marwyn, the Nurturer grows whenever an Elf enters and taps for that much mana, making Vitalize a ritual that scales with board state — untap her mid-storm and the mana she produces dwarfs what a conventional ritual could offer.

05
Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

25.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Yisan, the Wanderer Bard taps to tutor creatures onto the battlefield, and Vitalize gives him a second activation in the same turn — two verse counters in one go means skipping a full step in his tutoring ladder.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is unambiguously Vitalize's home — the format's creature-heavy mana engines and combo-oriented tap-untap loops are exactly what it was built to exploit. In Pauper it's legal and theoretically interesting, but the format lacks the critical mass of tap-for-mana creatures needed to make it broken rather than cute. Legacy and Vintage legality is mostly academic; decks in those formats that need mass untap effects have access to faster, more resilient options. Vitalize is a Commander card in practice, full stop.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.37 cheap tier

At $2.37, Vitalize sits at the high end of cheap — you're paying a modest premium for a card that is essentially a staple in several combo commanders and sees genuine tournament-level Commander play. That price is stable; it's not undervalued enough to spike and not overpriced enough to deter inclusion.

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