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Frozen Aether

Enchantment

Artifacts, creatures, and lands your opponents control enter tapped.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Planar Chaos
Price
$1.31
EDHREC rank
#8411
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Frozen Aether card art
Frozen Aether makes every permanent your opponents control enter tapped — artifacts, creatures, lands — which effectively gives you an extra turn of breathing room against anything new they deploy. At four mana for a global, permanent effect, it pairs naturally with tap-based punishers like Royal Assassin and slots seamlessly into snow-synergy builds helmed by Jorn, God of Winter.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Jorn, God of Winter

18.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Jorn, God of Winter untaps all snow permanents on combat damage, so Frozen Aether's tapped-entry clause keeps opponents perpetually behind while Jorn's engine keeps you fully operational — every threat they land is a dead turn for them and a free attack for you.

02
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is already taxing opponents out of the game, and Frozen Aether layers a tempo penalty on top — anything that does resolve enters tapped, meaning even the spells they can afford to cast don't immediately threaten you.

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

Commander is where Frozen Aether earns its keep: facing three opponents means the tapped-entry clause hits a constant stream of permanents, and a single enchantment affecting the whole table at four mana is exceptional rate. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially invisible — those formats move too fast for a four-mana do-nothing-immediately enchantment to matter. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home for the same reason Commander is, especially in stax-oriented builds that can back up the slow-down with a win condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.31 cheap tier

At $1.31, Frozen Aether sits comfortably in the cheap tier — it's a stax staple that sees consistent Commander demand without spiking. That price is stable; this is a role-player with a defined home, not a card chasing hype.

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