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Aether Snap

Sorcery

Remove all counters from all permanents and exile all tokens.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Commander 2014
Price
$0.54
EDHREC rank
#11123
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Aether Snap clears the board of every counter and every token in a single five-mana sorcery — no targeting, no exceptions, just a clean slate that punishes proliferate builds, planeswalker piles, and anything leaning on charge counters like Celestial Convergence. The cost is symmetry and sorcery speed: if you don't benefit more from the wipe than your opponents do, you've spent five mana to help the table. Shilgengar, Sire of Famine is the clearest home, where gutting opponents' Angel tokens and counters maps directly onto the sacrifice-and-drain engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

17.0% of decks · synergy 0.16

Shilgengar, Sire of Famine runs Aether Snap because clearing every token off opposing boards starves out token-based blockers and denies the resources other players would sacrifice for value, while Shilgengar's own engine runs on creatures you control rather than counters you need to preserve.

02
Glissa Sunslayer

Glissa Sunslayer

9.3% of decks · synergy 0.09

Glissa Sunslayer's -1/-1 counter synergies make Aether Snap a surgical strike — wiping opponents' loyalty and charge counters while Glissa Sunslayer's triggered ability generates card advantage off the artifacts and enchantments those counters were powering.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Aether Snap is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it earns a slot. In competitive Legacy and Modern, five mana at sorcery speed for an effect this situational simply doesn't clear the bar — dedicated hate pieces for counters or tokens cost two or three mana and are more reliably relevant. Commander is where Aether Snap finds its table: a 100-card singleton format full of planeswalker ultimates, Saga counters, proliferate engines, and token swarms means the effect hits something meaningful in nearly every game. In Oathbreaker it's legal but competes against faster removal in a smaller-life-total format where five mana is a steeper ask.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.54 bulk tier

At $0.54, Aether Snap sits firmly in bulk territory, which tracks for a narrow hoser that sees play in a small fraction of Commander decks. The price is stable and unlikely to move unless a pushed counter- or token-synergy commander spikes its inclusion rate.

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