Aether Drifters
Aether Drifters is a . A theme groups drops that share a franchise or an idea.Secret LairSpecial Magic cards sold by Wizards of the Coast on their own online store for a short time. Most are cards that already exist, given new art by a well-known artist or another franchise. A Secret Lair copy of a card plays exactly like any other copy of it.Open the full glossaryThemeOur way of grouping Secret Lair drops that share a subject, like Marvel or Fallout, so every version is on one page.Open the full glossary
Released 5 cards
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Every card in this drop
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- Card Kingdom $8.49 foil $9.49
- Cardmarket €5.83 foil €6.23
- Mana Pool $6.25 foil $6.25
- TCGplayer $5.79 foil $5.96
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Mechtitan Core // Mechtitan Core
- Card Kingdom $3.99 foil $5.49
- Cardmarket €3.12 foil €3.77
- Mana Pool $2.93 foil $3.20
- TCGplayer $3.23 foil $3.51
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Peacewalker Colossus // Peacewalker Colossus
- Card Kingdom $2.79 foil $3.49
- Cardmarket €2.23 foil €2.62
- Mana Pool $2.53 foil $2.54
- TCGplayer $2.22 foil $2.45
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Reckoner Bankbuster // Reckoner Bankbuster
- Card Kingdom $4.49 foil $3.49
- Cardmarket €2.61 foil €3.08
- Mana Pool $3.12 foil $3.28
- TCGplayer $2.91 foil $3.15
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Smuggler's Copter // Smuggler's Copter
- Card Kingdom $8.99 foil $8.49
- Cardmarket €5.70 foil €7.14
- Mana Pool $6.15 foil $6.38
- TCGplayer $5.45 foil $6.04
The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time
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| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
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| Aether Drifters | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $21.11 | The single cards, by $18.88 |
| Aether Drifters | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $19.60 | The single cards, by $10.39 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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26 rulings for 3 cards
Parhelion II // Parhelion II
Although the tokens are attacking, they were never declared as attacking creatures (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example).
You choose which players or planeswalkers the two tokens are attacking. They don't have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker that Parhelion II is attacking, and they can each be attacking different players and/or planeswalkers.
Peacewalker Colossus // Peacewalker Colossus
You may activate a crew ability of a Vehicle even if it's already an artifact creature. Doing so has no effect on the Vehicle. It doesn't change its power and toughness.
Once a player announces that they are activating a crew ability, no player may take other actions until the ability has been paid for. Notably, players can't try to stop the ability by changing a creature's power or by removing or tapping a creature.
If an effect causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature with a specified power and toughness, that effect overwrites the Vehicle's printed power and toughness.
Each Vehicle is printed with a power and toughness, but it's not a creature. If it becomes a creature (most likely through its crew ability), it will have that power and toughness.
If a permanent becomes a copy of a Vehicle, the copy won't be a creature, even if the Vehicle it's copying has become an artifact creature.
You may tap more creatures than necessary to activate a crew ability.
For a Vehicle to be able to attack, it must be a creature as the declare attackers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to attack with it is during the beginning of combat step. For a Vehicle to be able to block, it must be a creature as the declare blockers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to block with it is during the declare attackers step. In either case, players may take actions after the crew ability resolves but before the Vehicle has been declared as an attacking or blocking creature.
Once a Vehicle becomes a creature, it behaves exactly like any other artifact creature. It can't attack unless you've controlled it continuously since your turn began, it can block if it's untapped, it can be tapped to pay a Vehicle's crew cost, and so on.
Creatures that crew a Vehicle aren't attached to it or related in any other way. Effects that affect the Vehicle, such as by destroying it or giving it a +1/+1 counter, don't affect the creatures that crewed it.
Vehicle is an artifact type, not a creature type. A Vehicle that's crewed won't normally have any creature type.
Any untapped creature you control can be tapped to pay a crew cost, even one that just came under your control.
When a Vehicle becomes a creature, that doesn't count as having a creature enter the battlefield. The permanent was already on the battlefield; it only changed its types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won't trigger.
Smuggler's Copter // Smuggler's Copter
You may activate a crew ability of a Vehicle even if it's already an artifact creature. Doing so has no effect on the Vehicle. It doesn't change its power and toughness.
Once a player announces that they are activating a crew ability, no player may take other actions until the ability has been paid for. Notably, players can't try to stop the ability by changing a creature's power or by removing or tapping a creature.
If an effect causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature with a specified power and toughness, that effect overwrites the Vehicle's printed power and toughness.
Each Vehicle is printed with a power and toughness, but it's not a creature. If it becomes a creature (most likely through its crew ability), it will have that power and toughness.
If a permanent becomes a copy of a Vehicle, the copy won't be a creature, even if the Vehicle it's copying has become an artifact creature.
You may tap more creatures than necessary to activate a crew ability.
For a Vehicle to be able to attack, it must be a creature as the declare attackers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to attack with it is during the beginning of combat step. For a Vehicle to be able to block, it must be a creature as the declare blockers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to block with it is during the declare attackers step. In either case, players may take actions after the crew ability resolves but before the Vehicle has been declared as an attacking or blocking creature.
Once a Vehicle becomes a creature, it behaves exactly like any other artifact creature. It can't attack unless you've controlled it continuously since your turn began, it can block if it's untapped, it can be tapped to pay a Vehicle's crew cost, and so on.
Creatures that crew a Vehicle aren't attached to it or related in any other way. Effects that affect the Vehicle, such as by destroying it or giving it a +1/+1 counter, don't affect the creatures that crewed it.
Vehicle is an artifact type, not a creature type. A Vehicle that's crewed won't normally have any creature type.
Any untapped creature you control can be tapped to pay a crew cost, even one that just came under your control.
When a Vehicle becomes a creature, that doesn't count as having a creature enter the battlefield. The permanent was already on the battlefield; it only changed its types. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield won't trigger.
Also Printed in Other Drops
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