Obscuring Aether is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
Face-down creature spells you cast costless to cast.
: Turn this enchantment face down. (It becomes a 2/2 creature.)
How it works : Obscuring Aether
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Obscuring Aether has no effect on spells that instruct you to manifest cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Note that Obscuring Aether doesn't have a morph cost. Once it's turned face down, it doesn't have a way to turn itself face up.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Obscuring Aether + Primordial Mist + Ugin, the Ineffable
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite storm count
- 1Cast the creature with morph or megamorph for its morph or megamorph cost by paying
, putting it on the battlefield face-down as a 2/2 creature. - 2Activate Primordial Mist by exiling the face-down creature face-up, allowing you to cast it from exile this turn.
- 3Repeat.
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#2
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Obscuring Aether + Deathmist Raptor + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Obscuring Aether by paying , turning it face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Obscuring Aether, adding .
- 3When Obscuring Aether dies, Yarus's second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face down, then turning it face up.
- 4Deathmist Raptor triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face down.
- 5Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Deathmist Raptor, adding one mana of any color.
- 6When Deathmist Raptor dies, Yarus's second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face down, then turning it face up.
- 7Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Deathmist Raptor, adding one mana of any color.
- 8Repeat.
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#3
Obscuring Aether + Ugin, the Ineffable + Cloudstone Curio
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite storm count
- 1Cast the creature card with morph or megamorph from your hand for its morph cost by paying .
- 2Whenever the face-down creature enters the battlefield, Cloudstone Curio triggers, returning another creature with morph or megamorph to your hand from the battlefield.
- 3Repeat.
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#4
Obscuring Aether + Primordial Mist + Semblance Anvil
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite storm count
- 1Cast the creature with morph or megamorph for its morph or megamorph cost by paying , putting it on the battlefield face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 2Activate Primordial Mist by exiling the face-down creature face-up, allowing you to cast it from exile this turn.
- 3Repeat.
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#5
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Cryptolith Rite + Obscuring Aether + Ashnod's Altar
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Obscuring Aether by paying , turning it face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 2Activate Obscuring Aether by tapping it, adding .
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Obscuring Aether, adding
. - 4When Obscuring Aether dies, Yarus' second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down, then turning it face-up.
- 5Repeat.
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#6
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Cryptolith Rite + Obscuring Aether + Phyrexian Altar
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Obscuring Aether by paying , turning it face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 2Activate Obscuring Aether by tapping it, adding .
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Obscuring Aether, adding .
- 4When Obscuring Aether dies, Yarus' second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down, then turning it face-up.
- 5Repeat.
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#7
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Cryptolith Rite + Obscuring Aether + Thermopod
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate Obscuring Aether by paying , turning it face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 2Activate Obscuring Aether by tapping it, adding .
- 3Activate Thermopod's second ability by sacrificing Obscuring Aether, adding
. - 4When Obscuring Aether dies, Yarus' second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down, then turning it face-up.
- 5Repeat.
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#8
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods + Obscuring Aether + Earthcraft + Ashnod's Altar
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1Activate a basic Forest by tapping it, adding .
- 2Activate Obscuring Aether by paying , turning it face-down as a 2/2 creature.
- 3Activate Earthcraft by tapping Obscuring Aether, untapping the Forest.
- 4Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Obscuring Aether, adding .
- 5When Obscuring Aether dies, Yarus' second ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield face-down, then turning it face-up.
- 6Repeat.
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Legal formats
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