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Gonti's
Aether Heart
- Aether Revolt
Reviewed
Feb. 14, 2017
Constructed: 2.67
Casual: 3.50
Limited: 2.75
Multiplayer: 3.00
Commander [EDH]: 3.50
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James H. |
Gonti’s Aether Heart (2/14)
“Take an extra turn” is always alluring text on
a card. Thankfully, Gonti’s Aether Heart is a
bit more than a gimmicky way to act again; it
generates energy pretty quickly. The most
infamous trick is an infinite combo: with
Whirler Virtuoso, Panharmonicon, and Gonti’s
Aether Heart, you can generate infinite Thopters,
and infinite Thopters can then thop the crap out
of your opponent when you take an extra turn
(use 3 energy to generate a Thopter; get 2
energy back, which is doubled thanks to
Panharmonicon).
This is abusable, though the self-exile keeps it
from being mega-busted. It really needs to be
part of an elaborate combo, though, since 6 mana
for 2 energy isn't a great rate of return, and
you need time to really get the energy flowing
with it. It requires the right set-up to work,
though it's a decent contributor in a deck
geared for it.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 3.75
Multiplayer: 3.25
Commander: 3.5
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David Fanany
Player since
1995 |
Gonti's Aether Heart
I have to confess that I've never been entirely
comfortable with the concept of heart surgery.
Obviously it saves people's lives, but on the
flip side, every culture since the dawn of time
has believed that the heart was important. Your
thoughts are in your head, but your feelings are
in your heart. Do we really know what happens
when you mess with it? And what does it mean if
you're Gonti and you literally have a machine
functioning as your heart?
This card seems like an awfully long way to go
to get an extra turn, and a major investment of
both mana and energy counters. Then again, you'd
be paying about the same amount of mana for most
of the commonly-used extra-turn cards, and a
deck based around energy counters will be
looking to generate as many as possible. The
thing you'll need to be careful with is spending
them on more immediate uses, and/or spending
them all on the Aether Heart's effect and then
not having much to do on your extra turn. I
wouldn't say this is a staple for energy-themed
strategies, but it certainly has some potential.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 3/5
Multiplayer: 3/5
EDH/Commander: 3/5 |
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