Tainted Aether
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Urza's SagaUSG · #161
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 5.66 € · 20.28 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1998-10-12
Flavour text
Gix despised the sylvan morass. The gouge that the portal had torn in the forest was the only pleasing sight.
Rulings
If more than one of these is on the battlefield, the controller sacrifices a creature for each one of these.
If the controller has no other lands or creatures on the battlefield, they must sacrifice the creature that just entered.
If the creature changes controllers before this ability resolves, its new controller has to sacrifice something.
Tainted Aether's controller is the one that controls its triggered ability, but the controller of the creature that entered chooses what creature they sacrifice during resolution.
