Aether Syphon
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Aetherdrift #38 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{2}, {T}: Draw a card.
Max speed — Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards. (Each opponent puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Aether Syphon has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #8,464 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vnwxt, Verbose Host decks (4,658 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Aether Syphon most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vnwxt, Verbose Host: 4,658 decks
- Whtz, the Bibliophile: 512 decks
- Winter, Cursed Rider: 170 decks
- Arjun, the Shifting Flame: 159 decks
- Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan: 50 decks
- The Unagi of Kyoshi Island: 26 decks
- The Weaver King: 17 decks
- Zellix, Sanity Flayer: 9 decks
Often played with Aether Syphon
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : Your speed doesn’t change until a spell or ability says so, such as the inherent triggered ability that cares about opponents losing life during your turn. Notably, losing control of permanents with start your engines! doesn’t affect your speed.
- : Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.
- : If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.
- : Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
- : “Max speed — [ability]” means “As long as you have max speed, this object has [ability].” If the granted ability functions in a zone other than the battlefield, the max speed ability does too.