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Aetherize

Instant3 generic manaBlue mana

The whole gambit here is the alpha-strike trap. A wide attack is the moment an aggressive deck commits everything to the board: tokens, anthems applied, attack triggers spent, mana tapped for the swing. Catching that attack mid-combat and bouncing every attacker undoes all of it at once. The tempo math is brutal in a way that raw card economy understates. You spend one card to neutralize an entire turn of development, and the opponent has to recast a fistful of creatures, eat summoning sickness, and rebuild the board state from scratch while you reset. Anthems and equipped buffs evaporate; tokens that were attacking are returned to nothing. The cost of that swing is timing and discipline: it does nothing against a deck holding back, it only returns attackers and not blockers, and a player who reads the trap can simply decline to overextend. It is a punisher, not a sweeper, and it only punishes the player who walks into it. Compared to a true Fog, which buys a turn and lets the board sit, this clears the table of everything pointed at you and forces a do-over, which is why it reads as much harsher than its rate suggests against decks built to flood the board and end the game in a single decisive attack.

Aetherize (ddo)
DDO · #36uncommon
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Normal: $0.48
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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