Aethersquall Ancient

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Aethersquall Ancient: Creature - Leviathan, Aetherdrift Commander. Flying. At the beginning of your upkeep, you get Energy Energy Energy . On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{5}{U}{U}
Mana value
7
Type
Creature - Leviathan
Colour identity
Blue (U)
Power / toughness
6/6
Rarity
Rare
Set
Aetherdrift Commander (DRC)
Released
2025-02-14
Collector number
68
Artist
Sam Burley
Commander rank
6,575 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying

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About Aethersquall Ancient

Aethersquall Ancient is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue creature from Aetherdrift Commander (DRC), a Commander product released in February 2025. It is collector number 68 in that set, with art by Sam Burley. It costs {5}{U}{U} (five generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 7. It is a 6/6 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Kaladesh (2016) to Aetherdrift Commander (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.25 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Flying

At the beginning of your upkeep, you get {E}{E}{E} (three energy counters).

Pay eight {E}: Return all other creatures to their owners' hands. Activate only as a sorcery.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.25 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Aethersquall Ancient by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Aethersquall Ancient

Aethersquall Ancient has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) #174Rare2024
Kaladesh (KLD) #39Rare2016
Kaladesh Promos (PKLD) #39sRare2016

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Aethersquall Ancient, newest first.

  • Some spells and abilities that give you {E} may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any {E}.
  • Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
  • If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of {E}, and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any {E} even if you want to.
  • Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
  • {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
  • Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of {E} describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
  • Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
  • If an effect says you get one or more {E}, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more {E}, you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.

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