Price$93.91 – $200.00
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Artifact
LegalGame Changer Salt 1.63RampRank #144
This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 
. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
: Add 
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Why is this card good?
Explosive acceleration that pushes your gameplan a full turn ahead. Mana Vault produces three colorless for one mana, netting +2 immediately. That's the kind of jump that lets you slam your commander or a key engine well ahead of curve, which compounds harder in Commander than almost any format.
The downside is real but manageable: it stays tapped, pinging you 1 per upkeep until you pay to untap or just leave it down. In most games you spend it the turn you cast it, untap it later if you're flooded with mana, and the chip damage is trivial across a 40-life format.
Who wants it: any deck trying to win early or out-tempo the table — cEDH, fast combo, spellslinger, big-mana ramp, and Game Changer-bracket decks generally. It's a staple in high-power pods.
Skip it in slower, casual battlecruiser builds where you don't need the speed and the self-damage plus dead late-game draws aren't worth it. It's a bracket-defining card — keep it out of bracket 1-2.
to untap or just leave it down. In most games you spend it the turn you cast it, untap it later if you're flooded with mana, and the chip damage is trivial across a 40-life format.
Who wants it: any deck trying to win early or out-tempo the table — cEDH, fast combo, spellslinger, big-mana ramp, and Game Changer-bracket decks generally. It's a staple in high-power pods.
Skip it in slower, casual battlecruiser builds where you don't need the speed and the self-damage plus dead late-game draws aren't worth it. It's a bracket-defining card — keep it out of bracket 1-2.Related cards
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Printings (20)
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Combos (8)
- Hullbreaker Horror + Mana Vault
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite storm count
- Valley Floodcaller + Retraction Helix + Mana Vault
→ Infinite storm count, Infinite untap of some creatures you control, Infinite power and toughness for certain creatures until end of turn
- Tidespout Tyrant + Mana Vault
→ Infinite colorless mana, Infinite storm count
- Derevi, Empyrial Tactician + Emiel the Blessed + Mana Vault
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB
- Valley Floodcaller + Banishing Knack + Mana Vault
→ Infinite storm count, Infinite untap of some creatures you control, Infinite power and toughness for certain creatures until end of turn
- Voltaic Key + Forsaken Monument + Rings of Brighthearth + Mana Vault
→ Infinite untap of artifacts you control, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce