Aether Refinery

Doubling energy is a familiar effect, but stapling it to a token engine changes what the resource is for. Most energy payoffs treat the counters as fuel for a fixed menu: a burn spell, a buff, a specific artifact activation. Here the tap turns the entire stockpile into a single scalable body, an Aetherborn whose size is capped only by how much energy you are willing to dump into one activation. The static doubler and the token maker feed each other in a way that compounds fast: every source of energy in the deck arrives at twice its printed rate, so a modest generator becomes a real accumulation engine, and the activation converts that hoard into a threat as large as the reserve you banked. The design tension lives entirely inside the second ability, because token creation fires only on the tap, at your discretion, and asks you to weigh a big body now against a bigger one later. Even the energy the tap generates gets doubled before you pay, so holding back never idles the engine; you are choosing when to cash in, not whether the pile keeps growing. That is what makes this a rare energy piece that treats the counters not as ammunition but as raw material for bodies, and it recontextualizes every other energy card in the deck as a token payoff rather than a burn payoff.