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The Key to the Vault

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The Key to the Vault

Legal

Type line

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

Oracle text

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at that many cards from the top of your library. You may exile a nonland card from among them. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost. Equip

Rulings

  • If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.2024-04-12
  • You choose whether to cast the exiled card as The Key to the Vault’s triggered ability resolves. If you do, you do so as part of the resolution of that ability. You can’t wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on the card’s types are ignored.2024-04-12
  • If the spell you cast has in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.2024-04-12

Market price

$0.57

Commanders that play this card

Use over time

1 public deck with The Key to the Vault saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

Jul 27This week

Often played with

Across the 3 public decks that play The Key to the Vault. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.

3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
3 of 3 (100%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)
2 of 3 (67%)