Territorial Aetherkite
~$0.23 low · ~$0.24 high
Red. Creature — Cat Dragon

Aetherdrift Commander #12 · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West
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Oracle text
Flying, haste
When this creature enters, you get (two energy counters). Then you may pay one or more
. When you do, this creature deals that much damage to each other creature.
6/5
Format legality
All 2 printings of Territorial Aetherkite
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aetherdrift Commander drc #12· 2025rare· Cardmarket €0.15 | rare | $0.24 | €0.15 | |
Aetherdrift Commander drc #28· 2025Extended Artrare· Cardmarket €0.13 | rare | $0.23 | €0.13 |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2025
- Printings
- 2
- Mana value
- 6
- EDHREC rank
- #11,524 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Keywords
- Flying, Haste
- Artist
- Lars Grant-West
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Aetherdrift Commander card (#12).
0012 · DRC · R · EN
- 0012Collector number: this card's place in the set list.
- DRCSet code for Aetherdrift Commander
- RRare
- ENPrinted in English
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Card breakdown
The parts of Territorial Aetherkite, read from the Aetherdrift Commander printing. Tap a label to highlight its line. How to read any Magic card.
- Top: name and cost
- Art and type line
- Text box
- Bottom: stats and the info line

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Top: name and cost
Art and type line
Text box
Bottom: stats and the info line
Keywords
- FlyingCR 702.9
- It can be blocked only by creatures with flying or reach.
- HasteCR 702.10
- It can attack, and use abilities with the tap symbol, the turn it comes under your control.
Rule numbers from the Magic Comprehensive Rules, version of September 25, 2026.
Rulings (8)
2025-02-07
Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing them down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine.
2025-02-07
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.
2025-02-07
Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They’re not associated with any specific permanents.
2025-02-07
If an effect says you get one or more
, you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more
, 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.
2025-02-07
Some spells and abilities say that you “may pay” a certain amount of
, then describes 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 instead followed by the phrase “when you do” followed by an effect, then after you choose to pay
, a new triggered ability called a reflexive trigger is put on the stack, and you choose targets for the reflexive trigger (if the effect asks for targets). Players may respond as normal to this new triggered ability. Once that reflexive trigger resolves, the effect will finally occur.
2025-02-07
Some spells and abilities say that you “may pay” a certain amount of
. You can’t pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of
as the ability resolves.
2025-02-07
is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
2025-02-07
Some spells and abilities which give you
or say you “may pay” some amount of
require one or more targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won’t resolve. None of its effects will happen, you won’t get any
from it, and you won’t get the chance to pay any
for its effects even if you want to.
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