---
name: "Aether Syphon"
mana_cost: "{1}{U}{U}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Artifact"
colors: ["U"]
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Max speed", "Mill", "Start your engines!"]
set: "DFT"
set_name: "Aetherdrift"
collector_number: "38"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: "Martin de Diego Sádaba"
oracle_id: "d8956775-fda8-475d-9e8a-b61196a958ea"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/aether-syphon-dft"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Aether Syphon
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{U}{U}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Artifact
- **Keywords:** Max speed, Mill, Start your engines!

## Oracle Text
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{2}, {T}: Draw a card.
Max speed — Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards. (Each opponent puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Starting Column](/printing/starting-column-dft.md) — Artifact
2. [Loxodon Surveyor](/printing/loxodon-surveyor-dft.md) — Creature — Elephant Scout
3. [Racers' Scoreboard](/printing/racers-scoreboard-dft.md) — Artifact
4. [Vnwxt, Verbose Host](/printing/vnwxt-verbose-host-pdft.md) — Legendary Creature — Homunculus
5. [Perilous Snare](/printing/perilous-snare-dft.md) — Artifact
6. [Glitch Ghost Surveyor](/printing/glitch-ghost-surveyor-dft.md) — Creature — Spirit Scout

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Aetherdrift (DFT) #38
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** Martin de Diego Sádaba
- **Total Printings:** 6 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`