We reveal the new MTG Aetherdrift card, Trade the Helm!

Taking the world of Magic: The Gathering and giving it a professional racing spin, Aetherdrift is easily one of the more unique expansions that we’ve seen from the iconic card game.

Launching on the day of love, February 14 (with prerelease kicking off a week earlier on February 7), you’ll get behind the wheel as you tear through three different planes in a high-octane death race. Factions across the multiverse are kitting out their rides for a chance to win the coveted Aetherspark, the ultimate trophy.

With thanks to Wizards Of The Coast, we’re pleased to bring you an exclusive card preview: Trade the Helm.

Trade the Helm is the latest version in a long list of Legerdemain-like cards that allow you to swap cards with an opponent. While relatively expensive at 5 mana these effects are extremely powerful, often allowing you to swing games in your favour if you can play them at the right time.

Trade the Helm means you can effectively trade control of something on your side of the Battlefield for something on your opponent’s side. You could, in theory, give up control of a small fodder creature, but then take control of a super-strong creature from the opposition. It not only has the potential to remove a powerful card but also then lets you use it against them. Pretty cool stuff.

As a bonus, you can spend 2 mana to discard the card and draw a new one, so that it doesn’t just take up important space in your hand if the opportunity to capitalise on it doesn’t arise.

Check out the Wizards of the Coast WPN store locator to find your nearest pre-release event for Aetherdrift, happening from February 7.