Scornful Aether-Lich
Artifact Creature — Zombie Wizard
: This creature gains fear and vigilance until end of turn. (Attacking doesn't cause it to tap, and it can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BUW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #30449
Scornful Aether-Lich turns any land drop into a soft counterspell — tap a land, counter target activated or triggered ability, untap the land. The cost of running a 2/4 that demands blue and black mana to activate is real, but in the right shell this is a repeatable, instant-speed answer stapled to a body.
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 |
Scornful Aether-Lich is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a four-mana creature when cheap interaction exists. Modern is where it technically fits but won't see play — the format's speed punishes slow creatures, and activated-ability hate has better options. Commander is its actual home: activated and triggered abilities are everywhere, the game is slow enough for a 2/4 to survive, and tapping a land for a free counterspell is a meaningful political and defensive tool in longer games.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Scornful Aether-Lich is bulk — cheap enough to throw in any deck that wants it without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow utility rarely climb unless they find a breakout commander pairing, so treat this as a low-cost role-player, not a pickup with upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.