Bant Time Vault
Time Vault combines Time Vault with an untapping effect such as Manifold Key to take infinite turns. Compared to other A + B combos, the deck has several advantages: both halves can be found with artifact tutors, there are many redundant untappers, untappers have utility outside of comboing, and the mana cost to deploy the combo is relatively inexpensive in both quantity and colors.
The combo being compact combined with numerous untappers and artifact tutors creates many paths to assembling A + B without occupying a large amount of deck space solely dedicated to comboing. This offers the deck builder flexibility when constructing the supporting shell. Most lists play artifacts with powerful activated abilities such as Mana Vault and The One Ring to leverage the untappers.
White and blue offer quality interaction through counterspells and premium removal, while green offers land tutors that find Tolarian Academy and Urza's Saga, two commonly played pointed cards that encourage and compliment artifact density.
Example Decklist
Bant Time Vault
By: Smiley
Event: Portland Game Store Weekly - 1st
Date: 2026-05-11
Points (10): Time Vault (7), Mana Vault (1), Tolarian Academy (1), Urza's Saga (1)
Planeswalkers (5)
- 1Oko, Thief of Crowns
- 1Teferi, Time Raveler
- 1Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
- 1Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
- 1Tezzeret the Seeker
Creatures (9)
- 1Thundertrap Trainer
- 1Voltaic Servant
- 1Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
- 1Trinket Mage
- 1Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
- 1Brightglass Gearhulk
- 1Sowing Mycospawn
- 1Urza, Lord High Artificer
- 1Quantum Riddler
Sorceries (12)
- 1Gitaxian Probe
- 1Ponder
- 1Preordain
- 1Prismatic Ending
- 1Flow State
- 1Reshape
- 1Sylvan Scrying
- 1Transmute Artifact
- 1Sevinne's Reclamation
- 1Stock Up
- 1Wargate
- 1Lórien Revealed
Instants (22)
- 1Brainstorm
- 1Crop Rotation
- 1Enlightened Tutor
- 1Erode
- 1March of Otherworldly Light
- 1Mental Misstep
- 1Path to Exile
- 1Spell Pierce
- 1Spell Snare
- 1Stifle
- 1Counterspell
- 1Lose Focus
- 1Mana Leak
- 1No More Lies
- 1Remand
- 1Reprieve
- 1Force of Negation
- 1Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
- 1Whir of Invention
- 1Scour for Scrap
- 1Force of Will
Artifacts (20)
- 1Chrome Mox
- 1Lotus Petal
- 1Mox Diamond
- 1Mox Opal
- 1Aether Spellbomb
- 1Expedition Map
- 1Grafdigger's Cage
- 1Mana Vault
- 1Manifold Key
- 1Portable Hole
- 1Retrofitter Foundry
- 1Sensei's Divining Top
- 1Soul-Guide Lantern
- 1Voltaic Key
- 1Grim Monolith
- 1Talisman of Curiosity
- 1Talisman of Progress
- 1Talisman of Unity
- 1Time Vault
- 1Shorikai, Genesis Engine
Enchantments (1)
- 1Does Machines
Lands (32)
- 1Ancient Den
- 1Arid Mesa
- 1Boseiju, Who Endures
- 1Breeding Pool
- 1Flooded Strand
- 1Hallowed Fountain
- 1Hedge Maze
- 1Inventors' Fair
- 1Island
- 1Karakas
- 1Lush Portico
- 1Marsh Flats
- 1Meticulous Archive
- 1Minamo, School at Water's Edge
- 1Mistrise Village
- 1Misty Rainforest
- 1Otawara, Soaring City
- 1Plains
- 1Polluted Delta
- 1Savannah
- 1Scalding Tarn
- 1Seat of the Synod
- 1Shifting Woodland
- 1Talon Gates of Madara
- 1Tolarian Academy
- 1Tree of Tales
- 1Tropical Island
- 1Tundra
- 1Urza's Saga
- 1Verdant Catacombs
- 1Windswept Heath
- 1Wooded Foothills
