Aether Syphon

Combos with Aether Syphon

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.

• Peer into the Abyss Infinite
  • Near-infinite mill
  • Near-infinite card draw
  • Near-infinite draw triggers
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2025-02-07

  A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.

• 2025-02-07

  Your speed doesn’t change until a spell or ability says so, such as the inherent triggered ability that cares about opponents losing life during your turn. Notably, losing control of permanents with start your engines! doesn’t affect your speed.

• 2025-02-07

  Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.

• 2025-02-07

  If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.

• 2025-02-07

  Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.

• 2025-02-07

  “Max speed — [ability]” means “As long as you have max speed, this object has [ability].” If the granted ability functions in a zone other than the battlefield, the max speed ability does too.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Aether Syphon, whatever its commander.