Menace
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
{2}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Max speed — This creature has double strike.
1/1
Legalities
tlrlegal
duellegal
brawllegal
pennylegal
PreDH
Rulings · 6
wotc
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
wotc
If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.
wotc
Your speed doesn’t change until a spell or ability says so, such as the inherent triggered ability that cares about opponents losing life during your turn. Notably, losing control of permanents with start your engines! doesn’t affect your speed.
Notes
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Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.
wotc
“Max speed — [ability]” means “As long as you have max speed, this object has [ability].” If the granted ability functions in a zone other than the battlefield, the max speed ability does too.
wotc
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.