The Aetherdrift: Living Energy Commander preconstructed deck from Magic: The Gathering is a fantastic starting point for players who love energy mechanics and artifact synergies. However, with a few key upgrades, you can take this deck to the next level, making it more consistent, powerful, and fun to play. In this guide, we’ll explore the best additions to enhance your deck’s performance.
Why Upgrade Aetherdrift: Living Energy?
While this precon is strong out of the box, there’s always room for improvement. By adding stronger energy generators, artifact synergies, and efficient card draw options, you can optimize your strategy and outpace your opponents. Whether you’re looking to boost consistency, enhance your win conditions, or make the deck more interactive, these upgrades will help.
Best Cards to Add to Aetherdrift: Living Energy
Energy Generation and Utilization
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Gonti's Aether Heart – Generates two energy whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control. You can also exile it to take an extra turn for eight energy.
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Aetherworks Marvel – A powerful way to utilize excess energy, allowing you to look at the top six cards of your library and cast one for free when you pay six energy.
Artifact and Token Synergies
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Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer – Turns all your tokens into copies of a target token, making it a perfect fit for Saheeli’s token generation.
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Kappa Cannoneer – Unblockable and gains +1/+1 counters whenever an artifact enters your battlefield, becoming a major threat.
Card Draw and Advantage
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Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain – Draws a card whenever you cast a historic spell (artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas), ensuring a steady flow of resources.
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Research Thief – Provides extra card draw when your artifact creatures deal combat damage to players.
Enhancing Enter the Battlefield (ETB) Effects
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Panharmonicon – Doubles the triggers of your creatures’ and artifacts’ ETB abilities, maximizing value.
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Conjurer’s Closet – Lets you blink a creature at the end of your turn, retriggering its ETB effects for additional impact.
Other Strong Considerations
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Arcum Dagsson – Lets you sacrifice an artifact creature to tutor for a noncreature artifact, facilitating powerful plays.
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Master Transmuter – Swaps an artifact in play with one from your hand, allowing for surprise plays and better board positioning.
Final Adjustments
When incorporating these upgrades, consider removing less synergistic or higher-cost cards from the precon to keep the deck streamlined. Adjusting your mana base to support any color-intensive additions will also help maintain consistency in gameplay.
Where to Buy Aetherdrift: Living Energy and Other Magic: The Gathering Cards
Looking to upgrade your Aetherdrift: Living Energy deck? You can find the preconstructed deck, along with singles and sealed Magic: The Gathering products, at The TCG Shop. We stock everything from booster packs to accessories, helping you build the best Commander deck possible.
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