Aethermage's Touch
Instant
Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield. It gains "At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand." Then put the rest of the cards revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- UW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Double Masters 2022
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #20377
Aethermage's Touch puts any creature from your hand onto the battlefield with flash and draws a card — a two-for-one tempo play at instant speed. Four mana is real, but the card replacing itself makes it worth running in any blue-white shell that cares about what's in play at the end of your opponent's turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Aethermage's Touch earns its keep, particularly in flicker and creature-heavy control builds that want to drop a blocker or value engine at end of turn while replacing the card immediately. Legacy and Vintage have faster, more broken things happening, and the four-mana flash-creature-plus-draw effect doesn't compete with those formats' efficiency benchmarks. Modern is legal but similarly crowded with more powerful options, so Aethermage's Touch stays on the shelf outside of casual brews. Oathbreaker is the one fringe format where it can punch above its weight, since the smaller card pool makes instant-speed creature deployment with built-in card draw more meaningful.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Aethermage's Touch is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you think to order it. Given how narrow the card is, don't expect the price to move; it's a role-player that stays cheap because demand stays low.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.