Open the Vaults
- Mana cost
- {4}{W}{W}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Commander 2016 #72 (rare)
- Price
- $0.58 USD
Return all artifact and enchantment cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under their owners' control. (Auras with nothing to enchant remain in graveyards.)
Open the Vaults has 8 printings, first in Magic 2010 (2009). EDHREC ranks it #4,113 among Commander cards. It appears most in Dr. Madison Li decks (1,969 on EDHREC). 3 public decks on TCG run it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Open the Vaults
- Call the Spirits - Commander 2015, led by Daxos the Returned
- Invent Superiority - Commander 2016, led by Breya, Etherium Shaper
- Science! - Fallout, led by Dr. Madison Li
Commanders that run Open the Vaults most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Dr. Madison Li: 1,969 decks
- Breya, Etherium Shaper: 1,502 decks
- Tom Bombadil: 1,361 decks
- Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch: 1,063 decks
- Dogmeat, Ever Loyal: 907 decks
- Zur the Enchanter: 879 decks
- Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice: 840 decks
- Tuvasa the Sunlit: 720 decks
Often played with Open the Vaults
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If an Aura can be returned to the battlefield with Open the Vaults, it must be, even if its owner doesn't like what it would enchant.
- : If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura's controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn't target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent's permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura's enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can't legally be attached to anything, it remains in its current zone.
- : An Aura put onto the battlefield this way can't enchant an artifact or enchantment that's also being put onto the battlefield with Open the Vaults.
- : If multiple players have Auras in their graveyards, the player whose turn it is announces what their Auras will enchant, then each other player in turn order does the same, then all artifacts and enchantments (including both Auras and non-Auras) enter the battlefield at the same time.