Lets invalidate some counterspells!

  -- By Shaharazad from Tennessee on April 06, 2011

One of the best cards ever printed. Period. A staple in many decks and formats. Especially EDH.

  -- By Garrett from Fresno, CA on October 01, 2010

If you are even think affinity or any multicolored deck with massive creatures you NEED this card. There are no better way to get some five colored creature into battlefield without fearing that it may become countered. Yes usually multicolored god creatures cost very much, and you need to stall couple turn (counter and destroy are very good to stall) but when you got finally enough counter to vial, well you win the game instantly :) (Example you may play progenitus)

  -- By Christian T. from Finland on August 30, 2010

Combine with doubling season, and put it into an vial elf/token deck. BTW, I'm pretty sure "may put a counter" means you can, but you don't need to.

  -- By Anonymous from Santoano, MA on July 12, 2010

this card is great , ive been using this card in my solid type1 soldier deck, but disenchant really gives me a headache.. Hehehe...

  -- By ding dong dantes from philippines on January 09, 2010

It's great.

  -- By James Doto from oa on April 07, 2009

I managed to get my hands on three of these for pennies at a hobby shop. now, my kithkin deck is nigh invincible. aether vials+three charge counters on one, two on second, three on other+lots of buffs= massive ownage

  -- By Anonymous from Washington DC on October 19, 2008

this card lets aggro play through countermagic and standstill. turn 1 aether vial is amazing. nuff said

  -- By Anonymous from on May 15, 2008

You know, it doesn't say you have to remove the counters...

  -- By Anonymous from Mankato, MN USA on July 31, 2007

charge this up to 8 and use it with skeleton shard, arcbound ravager and arcbound overseer make some massive creatures fast.

  -- By Bandersnatch? from England on March 29, 2007

Do you hate drawing a hand with some great creatures and then losing the game because you can't play more than a single land card? I used to. An Aether Vial can be an amazing card if you have a deck with many creatures of the same converted mana cost or one that can manipulate charge counters. In other decks, it is merely very good.

  -- By Stanley Eaton from Boston, MA on January 30, 2007

great for normal play makes multicolored decks easier to play

  -- By liz yarrow from USA on January 04, 2007

banned from extended play :(.

  -- By anonymous from MA on October 15, 2006

You can use power conduit to add/remove counters. Drop this and a conduit, and swap counters from the vial to the conduit.

  -- By Jeremy Nelson from Raleigh, NC USA on December 22, 2005

this card is good but it has a serious down fall to it. the only way to make it better is to find a way to remove a counters

  -- By slave from Sandy, UT USA on August 22, 2005