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Aphetto Alchemist

Creature — Human Wizard1 generic manaBlue mana

Untapping is the most quietly abusable verb in the game, and this is a clean repeatable engine for it. The tap ability resets any artifact or creature, which means it doubles whatever activated ability that permanent already carries: a mana rock taps twice, a creature with a tap-to-deal-damage clause fires twice, a tapper locks down two attackers instead of one. The restriction to artifacts and creatures is the real ceiling on the design; pointing the effect at a land or an enchantment is off the table, so the abuse has to run through a creature or rock whose tap cost is worth paying again. Within that lane the rate stops mattering entirely the moment you hand it a token-maker, a mana producer, or any tapper worth firing twice. The morph clause earns its keep beyond flavor: played face down, the disguised body hides which combo piece you are holding, so an opponent sequencing removal cannot tell the engine from a generic blocker until you have already spent Blue mana to flip it. The 1/2 frame keeps it honest as an enabler rather than a beater; this is a card built to sit back and recur an effect, not trade in combat. It belongs to the lineage of untap-engine creatures whose whole job is to turn one useful tap ability into an arbitrarily large one, only ever as broken as the permanents you point it at.

Aphetto Alchemist (ons)
ONS · #64uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $3.38
Foil: $37.60
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Untap target artifact or creature. Morph Blue mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

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