First printed in Modern Horizons 3 (2024)
Artifact
If you would get one or more 
(energy counters), you get that many plus one instead.
: Draw a card. Activate only if you've paid or lost four or more this turn.
Hard hats are required. Shock-resistant coveralls aren't, but are highly recommended.
- Illustrated by
- Yeong-Hao Han
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (10)
- If an effect says you get one or more , you get that many energy counters. To pay one or more , you lose that many energy counters. You can't pay more energy counters than you have. Any effects that interact with counters a player gets, has, or loses can interact with energy counters.
- Keep track of how many energy counters each player has. Potential ways to track this include writing theme down on paper or using dice, but any method that is clear and mutually agreeable is fine. (At higher levels of tournament play, dice may not be allowed for tracking counters that players have.)
- Some triggered abilities state that you "may pay" a certain amount of . You can't pay that amount multiple times to multiply the effect. You simply choose whether or not to pay that amount of as the ability resolves.
- If a spell or ability with one or more targets states that you "may pay" some amount of , and each permanent that it targets has become an illegal target, the spell or ability won't resolve. You can't pay any even if you want to.
- Some spells and abilities that give you may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't get any .
- is the energy symbol. It represents one energy counter.
- If you control two Izzet Generatoriums (Generatoria?), the number of you get is the original number plus two. Three Izzet Generatoriums adds three to the original number, and so on.
- Energy counters aren't mana. They don't go away as steps, phases, and turns end, and effects that add mana "of any type" can't give you energy counters.
- Some triggered abilities that state that you "may pay" a certain amount of describe an effect that happens "If you do." In that case, no player may take actions to try to stop the ability's effect after you make your choice. If the payment is followed by the phrase "When you do," then you'll choose any targets for that reflexive triggered ability and put it on the stack before players can take actions.
- Energy counters are a kind of counter that a player may have. They're not associated with any specific permanents.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
18 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB: Automated Assembly Line + Gonti's Aether Heart + Izzet Generatorium
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Aether Refinery + Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Whirler Virtuoso
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Sphinx of the Revelation + Whirler Virtuoso
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB: Aethergeode Miner + Decoction Module + Izzet Generatorium
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB: Aethergeode Miner + Aetherstorm Roc + Izzet Generatorium
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Aethergeode Miner + Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Automated Assembly Line + Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Sphinx of the Revelation
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Whirler Virtuoso
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Whirler Virtuoso + Winding Constrictor
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers…: Guide of Souls + Izzet Generatorium + Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider + Whirler Virtuoso
