Electrosiphon
Electrosiphon: Instant, Fallout. Counter target spell. You get an amount of Energy equal to its mana value. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U}{U}{R}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue and red (UR)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Fallout (PIP)
- Released
- 2024-03-08
- Collector number
- 104
- Artist
- Antonio José Manzanedo
- Commander rank
- 5,631 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Electrosiphon
Electrosiphon is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and red instant from Fallout (PIP), a Commander product released in March 2024. It is collector number 104 in that set, with art by Antonio José Manzanedo. It costs {U}{U}{R} (two blue and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue and red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Fallout is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.43 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Counter target spell. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to its mana value.
"I calculate your chance of success to be . . . well, I don't want to be morbid . . ."
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.43 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Electrosiphon by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Electrosiphon
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Fallout (PIP) #414 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #632 | Rare | 2024 |
| Fallout (PIP) #942 | Rare | 2024 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Electrosiphon, newest first.
- 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.
- Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They’re not associated with any specific permanents.
- For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell’s mana value.
- 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}.
- {E} is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
- Some triggered abilities state that you “may pay” a certain amount of {E}. You can’t pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of {E} as the ability resolves.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Electrosiphon is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
- Science! (PIP), led by Dr. Madison Li