Here Are Two New Cards From Magic: The Gathering’s Aetherdrift Expansion

The first Standard-legal expansion of 2025 is coming to Magic: The Gathering soon with Aetherdrift, a set featuring high-speed races across multiple worlds in the MTG multiverse. Vehicles and the teams who pilot them are on full display this time around, as many of the previews released so far have already shown.

We can exclusively reveal two more cards included in Aetherdrift: one that allows you to sneak a peek at a few cards in your library, and one that can limit your opponent’s graveyard options while also increasing your life total. Both are Common-rarity cards, which means you should have no trouble finding them in your Aetherdrift booster packs beginning on February 14.

First, let’s take a look at Spotcycle Scouter:

• Spotcycle Scouter (Artifact – Vehicle)
  • Costs one generic and one white mana to cast
  • 3 power/2 toughness
  • When this Vehicle enters, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
  • Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)

Spotcycle Scouter’s Scry 2 ability could be a major boon in the early game, as it will let you move some cards you don’t need from the top of your library–or allow you to plan two steps ahead if the cards can help you out. Its stat line is also impressive for such a low mana cost, giving you a sizable body as early as turn three. It won’t turn the metagame on its head, but the Scouter here will add some value to Vehicle decks in most formats.

Our second exclusive card is Wreck Remover:

• Wreck Remover (Artifact Creature – Construct)
  • Costs four generic mana to cast
  • 3 power/4 toughness
  • Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. You gain 1 life.
  • Cycling 2 (Pay two generic mana and discard this card: Draw a card.)

Wreck Remover could slot nicely into sideboards as an answer to decks who focus on graveyard manipulation, as it can remove something an opponent wants to reanimate just by entering the battlefield–gaining a life on top of it doesn’t hurt either. Multiple copies of this on the battlefield could get silly in a hurry, though at four mana each, that likely won’t be a common occurrence.

You can check out more cards from Aetherdrift via the card gallery on the official MTG website, including new versions of longtime fan favorite Chandra and the newest character to the lore, Loot. The rest of the 2025 Standard-legal expansion schedule, meanwhile, is as follows:

• Tarkir: Dragonstorm – April 11
• Final Fantasy – June 13
• Edge Of Eternities – August 1
• Spider-Man – TBA
• Unannounced Universes Beyond Set – TBA