Aether Vial Scientifically Proven To Produce 17 Mana

Posted on September 11, 2007
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Originally ran Sept. 16, 2005

RENTON, Wash. — In a study two years in the making, Wizards of the Coast has scientifically proven that Aether Vial is exactly equivalent to a “super Dark Ritual” that produces 17 mana, according to officials.

“It was a lot of work, but it was worth it,” said Wizards of the Coast spokesman Aaron Forsythe, who led the study. “We did not want to ban the Vial from any formats until we knew exactly how good it was.

“Now we know that the Vial equals 5.7 Dark Rituals, which is 83.7 percent too good to be legal in Extended,” he said.

The study uncovered some unexpected results for other cards, Forsythe added.

“For example, we expected that Desperate Ritual would be equal to a fractional Dark Ritual, but it turns out that Desperate Ritual is actually 2.3 times better than Dark Ritual,” he said.

“Also, Divergent Growth, which produces no mana whatsoever, is 7.8 times better than Dark Ritual,” he said.

“It took a lot of people to make this happen,” Forsythe said. “At one point, we had so many people working on this study that there was no one left to playtest the Betrayers of Kamigawa expansion. However, I think the results show that we put our efforts in the right place,” he said.

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