Aether Refinery
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
If you would get one or more E (energy counters), you get twice that many E instead.
T: You get E, then you may pay one or more E. If you do, create an X/X black Aetherborn creature token, where X is the amount of E paid this way.
Combos with Aether Refinery
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Aethertide Whale Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Automated Assembly Line Gonti's Aether Heart Infinite
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite energy counters
- Infinite creature ETB
- Saheeli, Radiant Creator Lightning Runner Aethertide Whale Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite combat phases
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite untap of creatures you control
- Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
- Infinite energy counters
- Whirler Virtuoso Guide of Souls Izzet Generatorium Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite energy counters
- Whirler Virtuoso Guide of Souls Sphinx of the Revelation Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite energy counters
- Automated Assembly Line Guide of Souls Sphinx of the Revelation Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite energy counters
- Saheeli, Radiant Creator Karn, the Great Creator Ugin's Nexus Izzet Generatorium Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
11 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-06-07
If two or more effects attempt to modify how many E you get (or how many counters you would get), you choose the order to apply those effects, no matter who controls the sources of those effects.
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
- 2024-06-07
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.)
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
If you control two Aether Refineries, the amount of E you get is four times the original number. Three Aether Refineries multiplies the original number by eight, and so on.
- 2024-06-07
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.
- 2024-06-07
E is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Aether Refinery, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Satya, Aetherflux Genius | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Jeskai 1 deck
Aether Refinery price history
The Modern Horizons 3 Commander #54 · Extended Art printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $1.40 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $1.44 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $1.42 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $1.45 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $1.44 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $1.40 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $1.36 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $1.29 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $1.26 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $1.27 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $1.26 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Aether Refinery
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.36
Extended Art
- Normal
- $1.40
- Foil
- —
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Aether Refinery. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
