Aetherdrift

Overview

The city of Ghirapur is brimming with excitement as engines rev and racers prepare for the event of a lifetime. You can join in the fun on February 14, 2025, with the release of Aetherdrift! As we kickstart an epic year of Standard-legal sets, you can follow Chandra Nalaar and the Ghirapur Grand Prix, a race across three planes for a life-changing prize.

Archetypes

Possible Three-Colour Archetypes

Azorius: Artifact Value

The Guidelight Voyagers - Build up a board full of artifacts until your rival is overwhelmed by your racing Robot army!

Dimir: Artifact Bleeder

The Speed Demons - Scare your opponent silly with a combination of Robots and possessed toys that pressure your opponent's life total.

Rakdos: Max Speed Aggro

The Endriders - Ensure you reach max speed to drive your rivals into the pavement.

Gruul: Exhaust Midrange

Burn everything in the tank to enhance the Goblin Rocketeers to impressive size!

Selesnya: Vehicles and Mounts Midrange

The Alcarian Quickbeasts have skilled pilots who will ride your Mounts and Vehicles across the finish line.

Orzhov: Max Speed Attrition

The Champions of Amonkhet keep their feet on the gas to reach max speed and unleash a Zombie onslaught.

Izzet: Discard Aggro

The Keelhaulers - Avast! Cycle and discard away unneeded cards to improve your Pirates so they can throw your opponent overboard.

Golgari: Graveyard

The Speedbrood - Fill up your graveyard and keep returning your threats to rise above the roadkill.

Boros: Vehicles and Mounts Aggro

Road rage! Keep driving forward with the Cloudspire Racing crew's offense to make your opponent backpedal.

Simic: Exhaust Ramp

The Aether Rangers have mana to burn, fueling abilities that grant their creatures a huge burst of power.

Top Commons

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Combat Tricks (at Common)

Mana Fixing (at Common)

Set Mechanics

Speed

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.)

• 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.
• "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.

Exhaust

"Exhaust — [Cost]: [Effect]" means "[Cost]: [Effect]. Activate this ability only once."

• If an exhaust ability of a permanent is activated, and then that permanent leaves the battlefield and returns to the battlefield, it becomes a new object so its exhaust ability can be activated again.
• If an ability triggers whenever you activate an exhaust ability, that ability resolves before the exhaust ability resolves.

Returning Mechanics

• Energy
• Saddle
• Crew
• Cycling

The Headliner

The Aetherspark

The Aetherspark is an artifact containing an artificial planeswalker's spark created by Ishikari Bindra. The device can, in theory, grant any user planeswalking abilities. It was the prize awarded to the winner of the second annual interplanar Ghirapur Grand Prix, the Champions of Amonkhet.

Big Hits

Booster Slots

• 1x Rare / Mythic¹
• 1x Foil²
• 1x Wildcard³
• 3x Uncommon
• 6-7x Common⁴
• 1x Basic Land⁵
• 1x Token / Art Card

1. 78% rare; 13% mythic; 8% borderless rare; 1% borderless mythic.
2. 60.5% common; 30% uncommon; 6.4% rare; 1.1% mythic; 0.5% borderless common; 0.5% borderless uncommon; 0.9% borderless rare; 0.1% borderless mythic.
3. 8.3% common; 62.5% uncommon; 20.8% rare/mythic; 8.3% bordereless revved up common/uncommon.
4. 1.5% Special Guests.
5. 20% foils. 37.5% basic; 50% dual land; 12.5% full-art driver's seat.