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Aether Vial (From the Vault: Relics)

Aether Vial

From the Vault: Relics — mythic

Artifact

Aether Vial rulings:

2017-11-17: If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield.

2017-11-17: If a card in a player’s hand has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Aether Vial (From the Vault: Relics)

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