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Ghirapur Aether Grid

Enchantment

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic Origins
Price
$0.29
EDHREC rank
#6203
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Ghirapur Aether Grid card art
Ghirapur Aether Grid turns every tapped artifact into a Shock, and in artifact-dense lists that pressure stacks fast enough to close games or lock out small creatures entirely. The cost is real — you need volume and you need tap triggers, so it blanks in anything under a dozen artifacts — but Alibou, Ancient Witness and Magmatic Galleon decks meet that threshold comfortably and run it for good reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Alibou, Ancient Witness

Alibou, Ancient Witness

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.35

Alibou, Ancient Witness triggers off artifacts attacking and tapping, which means the same board state that's pinging opponents with Ghirapur Aether Grid is also fueling Alibou's scry-and-damage ability — the two engines run on identical fuel.

02
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy

32.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy floods the board with Gremlin tokens each time you tap an artifact, so Ghirapur Aether Grid creates a self-reinforcing loop: tap artifacts to ping, Gimbal makes more tokens, more bodies become more artifacts to tap.

03
Rashmi and Ragavan

Rashmi and Ragavan

24.3% of decks · synergy 0.23

Rashmi and Ragavan generate a stream of artifact tokens that need to do something beyond blocking, and Ghirapur Aether Grid converts that token surplus into a persistent drain that pressures life totals without requiring combat.

05
Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.21

Rocco, Street Chef produces Food tokens at scale, and Ghirapur Aether Grid gives those Foods a second use before you crack them — turning incidental life-gain infrastructure into a damage engine.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Ghirapur Aether Grid is a Commander card through and through — the longer games and artifact-heavy strategies common to the format let it accumulate meaningful damage in ways 60-card formats rarely allow. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but too slow and too conditional; artifact synergy decks there want payoffs that win immediately, not ones that chip for one or two damage at a time. Legacy and Vintage have the artifact density to theoretically support it, but the power ceiling of those formats means a pinger rarely makes the cut over faster engines. Commander is where Ghirapur Aether Grid belongs: the card rewards the kind of wide artifact boards that show up regularly in the format, and the incremental damage is much more meaningful when players start at 40 life and games go long enough to accumulate twenty taps.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.29 bulk tier

At $0.29, Ghirapur Aether Grid is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Given how often it shows up in artifact commanders and the lack of a direct functional reprint, there's no reason to wait on picking up copies.

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