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.
If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, this creature’s last ability doubles each card draw. For example, if you cast Harmonize (“Draw three cards”), you’ll draw six cards.
“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.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from DFT — the lineup includes Borderless 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 #356 of *Aetherdrift*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2025 Aetherdrift release.
Card type: Legendary Creature — Homunculus, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{U} (2 converted). Keyword abilities: 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 #3,982 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Chris Seaman. Rarix catalogs 372 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Chris Seaman
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If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player who’s drawing the card chooses what order to apply them.
The effects of multiple such effects are cumulative. For example, if you have max speed and control both Vnwxt and Thought Reflection (an enchantment with the same ability), you’ll draw four times the original number of cards.
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
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.
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
