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.
You must pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards you play using this creature’s last ability.
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from DFT — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #125 of *Aetherdrift*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2025 Aetherdrift release.
Card type: Creature — Human Mercenary, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {3}{R} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Reach, Max speed, and Start your engines!.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #18,470 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Mila Pesic. Rarix catalogs 216 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Mila Pesic
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Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
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.
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.
“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.
