Aether Charge
Enchantment
Whenever a Beast you control enters, you may have it deal 4 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Onslaught
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #17310
Aether Charge turns every Beast that enters your battlefield into a 4-damage punch to the face — no mana activation, no targeting restriction, just automatic drain-style pressure that stacks across a long game. The cost is narrow tribal dependency, and outside a Beast-dense shell like Slinza, the Spiked Stampede, it's dead cardboard.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede floods the board with Beasts, and Aether Charge converts every one of those enters-the-battlefield triggers into guaranteed damage — opponents take the hits before they can even respond to the token wave.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aether Charge is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana enchantment that requires a tribal synergy setup to do anything. Commander is the only format where Aether Charge earns a slot — specifically in Beast-tribal lists where the density of creatures makes the passive trigger fire multiple times per turn cycle. In Oathbreaker it's theoretically playable in the same tribal niche, but the smaller deck size and faster clock mean the enchantment often arrives too late to matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Aether Charge is deep bulk — zero barrier to picking up copies. Bulk tribal enchantments with narrow applications don't appreciate, so this is a card you grab for a specific deck and don't think about financially.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.