Marvel Super Heroes · Ramp guide
Vibranium is reusable but restricted; Treasures can be stored; creature-based land drops reward Animar. Practical upgrades for Shorikai, Magda, and Animar.
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Paper release 2026-06-26
Prices checked 2026-10-01
Marvel Super Heroes adds acceleration that cares about artifacts, combat, and creature spells. The most important new resource to understand is Vibranium: a reusable colorless mana token whose mana cannot cast a nonartifact spell.
That restriction still allows paying for activated abilities, and Vibranium is not sacrificed when tapped. The new token makers commonly create it tapped, so its first use comes later. This guide covers both MSH and the MSC Commander release.
A Vibranium token is an indestructible artifact that taps for colorless, with a restriction against casting nonartifact spells. It does not provide colored pips. Indestructible does not protect it from exile or a forced sacrifice.
Four mana buys two tapped Vibranium tokens on entry. On later turns they provide two restricted colorless mana. The Fabricator can also reanimate an artifact with a finality counter for six mana and a tap. You are paying for a lasting package, not getting two untapped mana back immediately.
The Mech makes a tapped Vibranium on entry and attacks; Dora Milaje Elite needs an opponent with more lands when it enters; T’Challa makes one on entry and attacks. Each asks for a different board state or combat plan, so the number of future sources is not guaranteed.
A Treasure fixes any color and can be stored, but is consumed when used for mana. Entry, combat, and spell triggers are not interchangeable.
Luke makes a Treasure at the beginning of your combat, even if you never attack. Alicia needs a noncreature spell cast earlier that turn. Isshin does not double these beginning-of-combat abilities: his effect concerns triggers caused by a creature attacking.
Ant-Man’s Treasure output depends on combat damage to a player. Death rewards noncreature spells with tapped Treasures and eventually sacrifices itself for damage. The tapped Treasures cannot normally refund the spell you are casting right now.
Its Treasure activation costs two mana and tapping the creature. It can bank spare mana for later, but does not work like Llanowar Elves. A newly cast Executive also normally waits a turn before using the tap ability.
These options matter when your commander rewards creature casts or you need permanent lands rather than artifacts.
At four generic mana it draws a card, then lets you put a land from hand onto the battlefield tapped. That can accelerate you in any color identity, but you need a land available after the draw. Animar can reduce its generic casting cost.
Technique can search a basic onto the battlefield tapped, with life and counter bonuses. Giant-Man produces green during your first main phase for your creatures with power at least four. The former is dependable land ramp; the latter requires an established creature board.
Some large printed mana numbers are excellent only in a specific deck.
The six-mana enchantment produces four mana in your first main phase and can copy your first qualifying noncreature spell each turn. It is a late-game engine, not a substitute for the two-mana ramp that helps cast it.
Karolina produces WUBRG during your first main phase, but that mana cannot cast spells from your hand. The colored symbols in the rules text make her a five-color-identity card for Commander. A mono-red deck cannot include her even though her casting cost is red.
Specific cards. Specific reasons.
These are suggested swaps for the stated deck and board state. The examples isolate what changes; they do not claim every list should make the same swap.
01 / Shorikai, Genesis Engine
The setup: Fabricator resolved on the previous turn and its two Vibranium tokens have untapped. Your lands already supply the required white and blue.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Manalith adds one mana of a chosen color. | The two Vibranium tokens add two colorless mana for artifact spells or activated abilities. |
Shorikai is an artifact spell, and its draw ability costs generic mana, so this deck can put the restriction to work. One token can pay for the draw activation while the other remains available. The Fabricator adds a separate late-game artifact-recursion option.
The tradeoff: Fabricator costs four versus three and its tokens enter tapped. They do not supply Shorikai’s white-blue pips and cannot pay even the generic part of a nonartifact spell such as a creature-only board wipe.
This swap costs $0.11 more at this snapshot.
Build for Shorikai, Genesis Engine →02 / Magda, Brazen Outlaw
The setup: Luke survives through three of your beginning-of-combat steps and you choose to save the Treasures.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Manalith provides one reusable mana each time it untaps, but gives no Treasures toward Magda’s five-Treasure ability. | Luke supplies three stored Treasures across those combats, even if you do not attack. |
Those tokens can combine with the Treasures your Dwarves make to pay Magda’s tutor cost. Banking the resource is the improvement here; Luke is not producing three mana in a single combat.
The tradeoff: Luke costs four instead of three and can die to creature removal. He is not a Dwarf, and his beginning-of-combat trigger is different from an attack trigger. Spending the Treasures on mana reduces what remains for Magda.
This swap costs $0.28 more at this snapshot.
Build for Magda, Brazen Outlaw →03 / Animar, Soul of Elements
The setup: Animar has three +1/+1 counters before you cast Scout Unit, and you will have a land in hand after its draw.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Cultivate costs three mana and is not discounted by Animar; it supplies a basic to the battlefield and one to hand. | Scout Unit’s four generic mana is reduced to one. Its entry draws a card and can put a land from hand onto the battlefield tapped. |
In this position you spend two less mana, add a flying creature, and trigger Animar by casting a creature. Animar’s new counter is not needed for the quoted discount: spell costs are determined before that cast trigger resolves.
The tradeoff: Scout Unit does not search a basic or guarantee a future land drop. Without Animar or counters it costs four, and without a land after the draw it adds no mana source. Cultivate remains the more self-contained fixing spell.
This swap costs $0.13 less at this snapshot.
Build for Animar, Soul of Elements →Artifact-heavy Shorikai lists should test whether two restricted sources outperform one universal source. Magda values stored Treasures more than a generic rock’s color fixing. Animar can exploit a generic-cost creature, but should keep enough land search for hands that lack the required land. Count every activation cost, tapped token, and spending restriction before calling a card ramp.
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