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Aetherdrift
Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description A waving chequered flag
Design Mark Rosewater (lead), Chris Mooney, Corey Bowen, Doug Beyer, Donald Smith, Jr, Graeme Hopkins, Yoni Skolnik
Development Yoni Skolnik (lead), Adam Prosak, Reggie Valk, Donald Smith Jr, Daniel Xu, Ben Weitz, Jadine Klomparens, Michael Majors
Art direction Vic Ochoa
Release date February 11, 2025 (Arena)
February 14, 2025 (paper)
Plane Amonkhet
Avishkar
Muraganda
Themes and mechanics Vehicles, Mounts, Speed
Keywords/​ability words Crew, Cycling, Exhaust, Max speed, Saddle, Start your engines!
Set size 281 + 125
Expansion code DFT[1]
Development codename Tennis
Standard
Foundations Aetherdrift Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Winter Superdrop 2025 Aetherdrift Aetherdrift
Commander Decks
Expansion symbol

Aetherdrift is the 103rd Magic expansion and will be released on February 14, 2025.[2][3] It features a multiplanar twist on the racing genre.[4][5]

Set details

“  You're in the Driver's Seat  ”

The set was first teased during the 2023 Announcement Day panel at Gen Con where it was revealed that it would feature a Death Race across three planes.[2] Two of the featured planes are planes from premier sets that have not been revisited since their debut (Avishkar and Amonkhet). The third plane is an existing location that has never been featured as a premier set before. Mark Rosewater calls it a "travelogue set".[6] While the mechanics are more focused on the race, the individual card designs are more focused on the scenery.[7]

The death race idea had been in discussion for over a decade. It was the Omenpath idea (travel through multiple worlds) that finally helped it get made.[8] Some of its inspirations were Death Race 2000, Speed Racer, Wacky Races, and The Fast and the Furious.[9][10] The genre entails not just a race where people race cars, but there is activity where people sabotage one another. Winning is as much about removing the competition as being the fastest.[11]

Aetherdrift contains 291 regular cards (91 commons, 100 uncommons, 60 rares, 20 mythic rares, 20 basic lands), and includes randomly inserted traditional foil versions of all cards.[12] The regular set includes full-art "Driver's Seat" basic lands (#272-276). Alternate card frames have a different card number than the original version. Borderless cards are #292-376 ("revved up" is #292-332) and extended art cards are #377-396. Japan Showcase cards in traditional foil are #397-406 and in fracture foil #407-416. Promo cards are numbered #417-426. Yellow borderless first-place foil cards are #427-516. Yellow borderless "Revved-up" cards (featuring a racer and their ride) are #517-531. First-place foil borderless "rude riders" (showing off the racing machines and racing steeds) are #532-545 and the 8 mythic rare borderless "Graffiti Giants" cards (five Gearhulks and three Amonkheti Gods in graffiti style) are #546-553.

Storyline

Key art of Chandra Nalaar doing the Akira Slide

Aetherdrift follows Chandra Nalaar as she competes in the Ghirapur Grand Prix, a death-defying interplanar circuit race across Amonkhet, Avishkar and Muraganda.[13] The racers come from near and far, the competition is fierce and the stakes are high, as her objective is the incredible prize only given to the race's champion: the Aetherspark.[14] The race is disturbed by sudden dragonstorms.

The set is the third in the Dragonstorm Arc. The cards that represent the Story Spotlights in Aetherdrift are:

Magic Story

Main article: Magic Story
Title Author Publishing date Setting (plane) Featuring
Aetherdrift - Episode 1: The Dashing and The Desperate K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-13 Avishkar Ishikari Bindra, Rashmi (mentioned), Spitfire, Mohar Varma, Pradesh, Gonti (mentioned), Pia Nalaar, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Winter, Valgavoth
Aetherdrift - Hour of Restoration Hadeer Elsbai 2025-01-13 Amonkhet Mahitab, Niharet, Basri Ket, Hazoret (mentioned), Temmet, Oketra (mentioned), Merinaten, Munhatep, Nicol Bolas (referred), The Scorpion God (mentioned), The Scarab God, The Locust God, Marunaten, Ketramose
Aetherdrift - Episode 2: Pit Stop K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-14 Avishkar, Amonkhet Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Pia Nalaar, Sita Varma, Vin, Lalan, Caradora, Lagorin, Mohar Varma, Far Fortune, Kolodin, Liliana Vess (mentioned), Loot, Winter, Suraj Chaudry III, Gonti, Vraska, Jace Beleren
Aetherdrift - Episode 3: Go! K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-15 Avishkar, Amonkhet, Muraganda Daretti, Redshift, Far Fortune, Sita Varma, Pia Nalaar, Chandra Nalaar, Zahur, Basri Ket, Winter, Kolodin, Nissa Revane, Loot, Vin, Karpani Zevanwat, Ragavan, Mohar Varma, Harshad, Jace Beleren, Vraska, Khuru
Aetherdrift - Episode 4: Little-Guy Shortcuts K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-16 Avishkar, Muraganda Mohar Varma, Rudra, Jace Beleren, Vin, Grennar, Chandra Nalaar, Nissa Revane, Sita Varma, Pia Nalaar, Basri Ket, Winter, Zahur, Mincemeat, Far Fortune, Daretti, Redshift, Loot, Kolodin, Vraska
Aetherdrift - Like No Other Beast Zachary Olson 2025-01-16 Muraganda Khrad, Grazak, Khal, Amarth-Tel, Harl, Chatal, Nathala
Aetherdrift - Episode 5: First Over the Line K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-17 Amonkhet, Avishkar, Muraganda Daretti, Pia Nalaar, Chandra Nalaar, Loot, Nissa Revane, Ketramose, Sita Varma, Winter, Mohar Varma, Vraska, Jace Beleren
Aetherdrift - Episode 6: The Bloodless Revolution K. Arsenault Rivera 2025-01-20 Amonkhet, Avishkar Chandra Nalaar, Loot, Daretti, Pia Nalaar, Jace Beleren, Vraska, Ral Zarek (mentioned), Nissa Revane, Far Fortune, Howler, Redshift, Sita Varma, Mohar Varma, Vin, Elspeth Tirel, Winter, Basri Ket, Zahur

Marketing

The Aetherspark features on the Aetherdrift Collector Booster.

Aetherdrift is available in Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, two Commander decks, the Aetherdrift Bundle and the special "Finish Line" Bundle. The booster box for Play Boosters is reduced from 36 to 30 boosters.[12]

Play Boosters may contain DFT #1–375 and SPG #84–93. A foil mythic borderless Graffiti Giants card appears in <1% of the boosters. Collector Boosters may contain DFT #1–276, #292–416; #DRC 1–4, DRC #21–36 and SPG #84–93. Japan Showcase cards and Serialized Aethersparks appear in <1% of Collector Boosters. First-place foils appear only in Box Topper packs, which are included in Aetherdrift Play Booster boxes, Collector Booster boxes, and Finish Line Bundles.

The special "Finish Line" Edition of the Bundle consists of two Collector Boosters and six Play Boosters. It includes five full-art "Driver's Seat" basic lands in "first-place foil". It also includes one "first-place" foil Box Topper pack, five mana symbol stickers (one for each color), a checkered flag oversized spindown life counter, and three extended alternate art Bundle promo cards.

DFT # Frame Promo
424 Extended art Amonkhet Raceway
425 Extended art Avishkar Raceway
426 Extended art Muraganda Raceway

Special Guests

Aetherdrift features 10 Special Guests (SPG #84-93).[12] These may be found in Play Boosters and may be played in Limited games. You'll find a non-foil Special Guests card in 1 out of 64 Play Boosters (1.5%). Traditional foil Special Guests cards can be found in Collector Boosters (4.2% to replace the traditional foil Booster Fun rare or mythic rare card). The Special Guests for this set have cards and illustrations hand-picked by the Secret Lair team. These unique treatments are designed to embody the multiplanar chaos of Aetherdrift.

Japan Showcase

Aetherdrift features 10 Japan Showcase cards (DFT #397-416).[12] Each card has been reimagined by Japanese artists and illustrators and have a special frame and style that pays homage to Japanese hobby shops. Unlike Special Guests they use the standard Aetherdrift set code and expansion symbol (). Japan Showcase cards appear only in Collector Boosters. In Japanese Collector Boosters, Japan Showcase cards will always be in Japanese. In non-Japanese Collector Boosters, they will appear in English two thirds of the time and in Japanese one third of the time. One-in-ten Collector Boosters will have a Japan Showcase card (9% traditional foil, 1% fracture foil).

Ad cards

For Aetherdrift Play Boosters, Wizards of the Coast has removed the ad card as an option from the 15th card slot.[12] Play Boosters will only contain token, emblem, helper, and art cards.

Box Toppers

Aetherdrift Booster boxes each include a 2-card Box Topper pack containing 1 of 10 "first-place foil" full-art basic lands and 1 of 127 first-place foil cards from either the main Aetherdrift set or the Special Guests.[12]

Headliner

The Headliner for this set is The Aetherspark, which also features a serialized version.[15][12]

Events

Promos

Tokens, emblems and markers

Start Your Engines! helper card

Aetherdrift has 12 tokens, one emblem, and one double-sided speed helper card.[17] The tokens and emblem are double-sided in different combinations.

  1. {C} 1/1 Pilot creature with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power was 2 greater." for Back on Track; Cloudspire Coordinator; Country Roads; Defend the Rider; Foul Roads; Reef Roads; Risen Necroregent; Roadside Assistance; Rocky Roads; Valor’s Flagship and Wild Roads.
  2. {W} 1/1 Cat creature with lifelink for Basri, Tomorrow's Champion.
  3. {B} 2/2 Zombie creature for Cryptcaller Chariot; Embalmed Ascendant; Hour of Victory; Risen Necroregent and Zahur, Glory’s Past.
  4. {R} 1/1 Goblin creature for Howlsquad Heavy.
  5. {R} 4/4 Dinosaur Dragon creature with flying for Draconautics Engineer.
  6. {G} 1/1 Insect creature for Aatchik, Emerald Radian.
  7. {G} 3/3 Elephant creature for Autarch Mammoth; March of the World Ooze and Stampeding Scurryfoot.
  8. {C} 1/1 Servo artifact creature for Nesting Bot.
  9. {C} 1/1 Thopter artifact creature with flying for Broadcast Rambler; Camera Launcher; Haunt the Network; Nimble Thopterist; Rangers' Aetherhive and Thopter Fabricator.
  10. {C} 1/1 Thopter artifact creature with flying.
  11. {C} Treasure artifact for Gilded Ghoda; Gonti, Night Minister; Monument to Endurance; Rocketeer Boostbuggy and Ticket Tortoise.
  12. {C} 3/2 Vehicle artifact with crew 1 for Chandra, Spark Hunter and Mu Yanling, Wind Rider.
  13. Emblem for Chandra, Spark Hunter.
  14. Start Your Engines! // Max Speed double-faced helper card.

Themes and mechanics

Max speed helper card

Vehicles are a big feature in the set.[18][19] Mounts and saddle also return from Outlaws of Thunder Junction.[20]

A major mechanic, acting as a resource, is Speed, controlled primarily by the Start your engines! ability.[20] Your speed starts at 1, and it increases by 1 the first time an opponent loses life on each of your turns. The maximum possible speed is 4, and many cards reward achieving max speed.

A new keyword ability is Exhaust, which appears as activated abilities of permanents of various types. A given exhaust ability can only be activated once per game.[20]

Cycling returns to act as a smoothing mechanic, and synergizes with some cards in the set that reward discarding cards or having a full graveyard. While cycling's flavor has always been a bit generic, this was a set where the name matched the theme. The cards with cycling fall into two major categories. The first are generic cyclers, letting you discard a card for another one. The second are cards that trigger an effect when you cycle them, so they play a bit more like modal cards, as you get a choice between two effects.[21]

Cameo mechanics from Amonkhet (Embalm, Exert), as well as synergy with vanilla creatures (referencing Muraganda Petroglyphs), are present in small amounts to flavorfully accent the planes on which the race is staged. No mechanics from Hour of Devastation or Kaladesh block are featured in the main set.

Card types

Aetherdrift introduces the Seal creature type.[22] Robot is used for the first time in-universe. This is because the Guidelight Voyagers are all made fully of metal and animated by programming, rather than magic like most Constructs.[23]

Limited archetypes

Aetherdrift Limited Archetypes' description

Aetherdrift features the following limited archetypes.[24] Each color pair represents a team participating in the Ghirapur Grand Prix for the Aetherspark.[14][25] Among the teams are Goblins, Insects and Zombies. They are not all divided by creature type. The division is much more about mood and tone, with a number coming from a specific plane.[26]

Cycles

Cycle name {W} {U} {B} {R} {G}
Rare legends Basri, Tomorrow's Champion Vnwxt, Verbose Host Gonti, Night Minister Daretti, Rocketeer Engineer Oviya, Automech Artisan
Five rare monocolored legendary creatures.
Vanilla Tyrants Sundial, Dawn Tyrant Caelorna, Coral Tyrant Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant Tyrox, Saurid Tyrant Terrian, World Tyrant
Five uncommon Legendary creatures from Muraganda with no abilities. Each has a name ending in "Tyrant".
Surveyors Leonin Surveyor Glitch Ghost Surveyor Mutant Surveyor Goblin Surveyor Loxodon Surveyor
Five common creatures with start your engines: their owner can pay {3} and exile them from their graveyard while at max speed to draw a card.
Counterclockwise Enemy color verges Sunbillow Verge ({R}) Willowrush Verge ({G}) Bleachbone Verge ({W}) Riverpyre Verge ({U}) Wastewood Verge ({B})
Five rare lands each tap for a primary color. Additionally, each can tap for its counterclockwise enemy color, annotated in brackets, if its controller controls a basic land type associated with either of those colors.
Roads Country Roads Reef Roads Foul Roads Rocky Roads Wild Roads
Five uncommon lands that enter tapped unless their controller controls a Mount or a Vehicle, tap for M and can be sacrificed for {1}M to create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power was 2 greater." as a sorcery.
Cycle name {W}{U} {U}{B} {B}{R} {R}{G} {G}{W}
Allied-colored Gearhulks[27] Riptide Gearhulk Oildeep Gearhulk Coalstoak Gearhulk Pyrewood Gearhulk Brightglass Gearhulk
Five mythic rare artifact creature Constructs that continue the Gearhulk cycle printed in Kaladesh, since Avishkar (formerly Kaladesh) is one of the three planes in the race. Somewhat similar to the previous cycle, they have MMNN in their mana cost, two keyword abilities, and an Enters effect.

Double cycles

Cycle name {W}{U} {U}{B} {B}{R} {R}{G} {G}{W} {W}{B} {U}{R} {B}{G} {R}{W} {G}{U}
Gold Team Captains Mendicant Core, Guidelight Winter, Cursed Rider Far Fortune, End Boss Redshift, Rocketeer Chief Caradora, Heart of Alacria Zahur, Glory’s Past Captain Howler, Sea Scourge Aatchik, Emerald Radian Kolodin, Triumph Caster Sita Varma, Masked Racer
Ten rare dual-colored cards, each representing a captain or co-captain of one of the ten racing teams.
Gold Racer Signposts Guidelight Pathmaker Haunted Hellride Apocalypse Runner Rocketeer Boostbuggy Lagorin, Soul of Alacria Dune Drifter Boosted Sloop Thundering Broodwagon Cloudspire Skycycle Rangers’ Aetherhive
Ten uncommon dual-colored cards, each a signpost for one of the draft archetypes. These are all Vehicles or Mounts.
Gold Signposts Voyage Home Haunt the Network Gastal Thrillseeker Boom Scholar Veteran Beastrider Embalmed Ascendant Broadside Barrage Broodheart Engine Cloudspire Coordinator Skyserpent Seeker
Ten uncommon dual-colored cards, each a signpost for one of the draft archetypes. These are not Vehicles or Mounts.
Life-gain Taplands Tranquil Cove Dismal Backwater Bloodfell Caves Rugged Highlands Blossoming Sands Scoured Barrens Swiftwater Cliffs Jungle Hollow Wind-Scarred Crag Thornwood Falls
Ten common lands that enter the battlefield tapped, gain the controller one life, and can tap for 2 different colors of mana. Most recently reprinted in Magic the Gathering: Foundations, and less recently in March of the Machine.

Vertical cycle

Cycle name
Raceways Avishkar Raceway
(Stage 1 & 5: Avishkar)
Amonkhet Raceway
(Stage 2 & 4: Amonkhet)
Muraganda Raceway
(Stage 3: Muraganda)
Three Lands that can tap to add {C} and have a Start your engines! ability, granting an extra tap ability when at max speed. They represent the different planes (i.e. stages) of the race from first visited to last, in increasing rarity.

Flavor-based cycle

Aetherdrift features an irregular, flavor-based cycle.

Cycle name {W}{B} {R} {G}{U}
Gods Ketramose, the New Dawn Hazoret, Godseeker Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
Three mythic rare legendary gods of Amonkhet.

Pairs

There are two matched pairs in the set

Mirrored pair Description
Scrounging Skyray ({U}) Marauding Mako ({R}) Two uncommon Pirates with cycling {2} that get a number of +1/+1 counters whenever their controller discards a number of cards.
Momentum Breaker ({B}) Outpace Oblivion ({R}) Two uncommon Enchantments with start your engines!, an enters the battlefield effect and speed-related self-sacrifice activated ability.

Reprinted cards

Aetherdrift features the following Reprints:

Notable cards

Misprints

Preconstructed decks

Aetherdrift features two Commander decks released as a regular part of a set's product line.

Theme
deck name
Color Identity Commander
{W} {U} {B} {R} {G}
Living Energy U R G Saheeli, Radiant Creator
Eternal Might W U B Temmet, Naktamun’s Will

Gallery

Teams

References

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  7. Mark Rosewater (December 13, 2024). "About how much of aetherdrift is the race components and how much is scenery from the host planes?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  8. Mark Rosewater (August 6, 2023). "One set I'd like to single out is the Death Race set (Tennis).". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  9. Mark Rosewater (September 29, 2023). "Would you say Death Race is going to be more like Speed Racer, Wacky Races, or Fast And The Furious?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
  10. Mark Rosewater (December 2, 2023). "Did you mean that as a reference to the 1975 movie "Death Race 2000"?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
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  14. a b Magic: The Gathering (October 25, 2024). "The real stars of the show are the racers you support.". Twitter.
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