Aether Channeler

Creature — Human Wizard

When this enters, choose one —

• Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying.
• Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Tokens

• Bird 1/1 W

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (24)

DemonDragonJ on Don't Blink, or You'll Miss It!

1 month ago

I have replaced Basalt Monolith and Augury Owl with Aether Channeler and Noble Hierarch, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.33 to 3.32, because this deck has a strong emphasis on creatures, so a mana dork better fits the deck's theme than does a mana rock, and the channeler is more versatile than is the owl.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Basalt Monolith …

1 month ago

SaberTech, I would like to keep exactly 40 land cards in my EDH decks, and I understand that that may seem to be irrational, but that is my own personal quirk, so I like to maintain that across my decks.

As for the main subject of this thread, I shall keep Arcane Signet in my Chulane deck, for the present time, because it is such a good card, and I shall replace Basalt Monolith with Noble Hierarch and Augury Owl with Aether Channeler, as that creature is more versatile.

Balaam__ on Yer a Wizard, Henry!

3 months ago

@Bookrook Naban, Dean of Iteration won’t trigger Dour Port-Mage. He’s here to double the effectiveness of Venser and Aether Channeler. As for Wizard's Retort, I get tired of seeing the same spells over and over again. Retort will always be a Counterspell in this deck since everything’s a Wizard. It’s just for variety.

capwner on White/Blue and Rude All Over

1 year ago

Geist of St. Traft and Steel of the Godhead is gonna be a big +1 from me lol. I have to ask why only 1 Solitude though? Seems like your best card alongside nulldrifter, Solitude really provides the interaction needed to stabilize against many powerful creature strats, and it's pretty oppressive when you can blink repeatedly. I do like the choice of Momentary Blink for the flashback grind value. I think sideboard hate cards like Stony Silence and Rest in Peace could be appropriate opposed to Wispmare, Aether Channeler and the 4 Thassas which I don't really understand, I guess for the scry value? I'm also a fan of specific sideboard counterspells such as Flusterstorm, Consign to Memory, Test of Talents or even the humble Spell Pierce. All depends on your meta of course if you're playing kitchen table legacy with your friends these hate cards won't matter as much but if you're going to FNM they will!

Tsukimi on Million Dollar Shortbread (Brenard’s Blinged Bash)

1 year ago

Love to see a Brenard deck! I see you're going in a few different directions, but I think there are some fun pieces to consider and some you might want to take out. You mention food, tokens, and golems, but I see a counter subtheme as well with cards like Helix Pinnacle and Simic Ascendancy. I'd recommend cutting those since your deck is already going in a few directions and there's more fun stuff you could utilize with Brenard. I'd also suggest taking a hard look at anything that is 6mv or above, like Avenger of Zendikar etc. While fun, they don't play very well with brenard unless you are running a huge ramp suite. He works much better with cheaper creatures like Aether Channeler and friends.

Also, if you decide to run lower mana value creatures, any card with populate on it becomes very strong. I have a primer for this deck since it's my favorite, if you want any suggestions!

Can't Catch Me, I'm the GingerBant Man! [Primer]

Tsukimi on Eda, Mother of the Lost

1 year ago

So originally I wanted to do a go wide and buff theme with cards like Angel of Invention, Thunderfoot Baloth, Harmonious Archon, so on and so forth but then it started to feel a little too similar to my Brenard deck so I swapped it up to be more about making token copies of great creatures like Vaultborn Tyrant, Cloudblazer, Aether Channeler, Bronzebeak Foragers, and the like. After building the entire deck around this idea (because it is the sole of what I want the custom commander to facilitate) I realized this.... doesn't work great with Eda's lifegain that wants things that make extra bodies when they enter so... It feels a bit of a mess but I can't look at it any longer lol. I'm thinking I might need to switch up Eda's wording or go back to the drawing board but I may be overthinking it.

Eda, (Clawthorne) Mother of the Wayward

Rhadamanthus on what is modal?

2 years ago

A modal spell is a spell with an effect that says "Choose [some number] - [list of choices]" where you make the modal choices as you cast it. Spells like Simic Charm or Cryptic Command are modal spells. Aether Channeler has a triggered ability with a modal effect, but Aether Channeler itself as a spell is not modal because you don't make any modal choices as you cast it. Similarly, Umezawa's Jitte has an activated ability with a modal effect but the Jitte itself is not a modal spell and Jace, the Mind Sculptor has a bunch of different activated abilities but doesn't have anything modal about it.

YStar27 on what is modal?

2 years ago

i am building i Riku of Many Paths commander deck and want to know what is a modal spell? obviously cards like Simic Charm are modal but what about ones like Aether Channeler? also are planeswalkers and other permanents with multiple abilities considered modal becase they do multiple things?

thanks