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◇ Catalog #538

The Speed Demon

dft·#538·mythic·borderless

Illus. CatDirty

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Feb '25

1 yr ago

Value

$21.59+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $21 · low $19

NM$20.6

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$19–$22modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $22low $0.02range 108350.0%n 215

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #6,739 · Niche pick

Variants

Borderless$21

Gameplay

Legendary Creature — Demon

Flying, trample 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.) At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.

"You've got the dream machine. I've got the nightmare mach-ightmare."

5/5

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2025-02-07wotc

“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.

2025-02-07wotc

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.

2025-02-07wotc

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.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $20.59. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $21.69 across 215 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

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 #538 of *Aetherdrift*, the set that shipped alongside the February 2025 Aetherdrift release.

Card type: Legendary Creature — Demon, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {3}{B}{B} (5 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying, Trample, and Start your engines!.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #6,739 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by CatDirty. Rarix catalogs 16 other cards credited to this artist.