Lim-Dûl's Vault
Lim-Dûl's Vault: Instant, Mystery Booster 2. Look at the top five cards of your library. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}{B}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue and black (UB)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2 (MB2)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 87
- Artist
- Wayne England
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About Lim-Dûl's Vault
Lim-Dûl's Vault is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue and black instant from Mystery Booster 2 (MB2), a Masters set released in August 2024. It is collector number 87 in that set, with art by Wayne England. It costs {U}{B} (one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Alliances (1996) to Mystery Booster 2 (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.36 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Look at the top five cards of your library. As many times as you choose, you may pay 1 life, put those cards on the bottom of your library in any order, then look at the top five cards of your library. Then shuffle and put the last cards you looked at this way on top in any order.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.36 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Lim-Dûl's Vault by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Lim-Dûl's Vault
Lim-Dûl's Vault has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #1996 | Rare | 2022 |
| Commander 2013 (C13) #197 | Uncommon | 2013 |
| Masters Edition (ME1) #148 | Uncommon | 2007 |
| Alliances (ALL) #107 | Uncommon | 1996 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Lim-Dûl's Vault, newest first.
- If you pay no life, you shuffle the rest of your library and then put the top five cards back on top in any order.
- In other words: - Step 1: Look at the top five cards of your library. - Step 2: If you like them, proceed to step 3a. If you don't like them, proceed to step 3b. - Step 3a: Shuffle the rest of your library, then put those five cards back on top of your library in the order you want. The spell has finished resolving. - Step 3b: Put those five cards on the bottom of your library in the order you want. Pay 1 life. Return to step 1.
- If you have five or fewer cards in your library, you can pay 1 life as many times as you like, but you'll keep seeing the same cards.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a blue and black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.