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Aether Flash

Enchantment

Whenever a creature enters, this enchantment deals 2 damage to it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Classic Sixth Edition
Price
$0.67
EDHREC rank
#11242
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Aether Flash card art
Aether Flash deals 2 damage to every creature that enters the battlefield — yours included — which either locks out small creatures entirely or enables infinite loops with the right payoffs like Polyraptor. The cost is real: running it without a plan to exploit it just taxes your own board as hard as your opponents'.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Aether Flash is a Commander card through and through — the format's slower pace and creature-heavy metas give it time to warp the board, and the combo applications with token doublers and self-damaging creatures are easiest to assemble in 100-card singleton. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has never found traction, since those formats move too fast for a four-mana enchantment that doesn't immediately affect the game state. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that the same combo shells apply, though the smaller deck size makes the redundancy harder to sustain.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.67 bulk tier

At $0.67, Aether Flash sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire and unlikely to move unless a new combo piece pushes it into the spotlight. It's a low-risk pickup if the combo line fits your deck.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.