Aether Searcher
Artifact Creature — Construct
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When this creature enters, you may search your hand and/or library for a card with a name noted as you drafted cards named Aether Searcher. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you searched your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Conspiracy
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #29696
Aether Searcher enters the battlefield and immediately lets you cast a spell from your hand for free — that's the whole card, and it's a strong effect stapled to a 4/4 for seven mana. The cost is steep enough that it lives almost exclusively in cheat-into-play strategies, where you're never paying the seven.
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 Searcher is a Commander card through and through — the format's singleton rule and longer game arcs give you the time and redundancy to set up a reanimation or blink shell that makes the seven-mana rate irrelevant. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it doesn't compete: both formats move too fast and have access to more efficient free-spell engines. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's fundamentals that the same cheat-in logic applies, though the smaller deck size and lower starting life make the payoff harder to assemble consistently.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Aether Searcher is deep bulk — no barrier to entry for any budget. The price reflects its narrow role rather than power level; it won't climb unless a commander releases that makes cheating in seven-drops a mainstream strategy.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.