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◇ Catalog #98

Mutant Surveyor

dft·#98·common·nonfoil

Illus. Nicholas Gregory

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Feb '25

1 yr ago

Value

$0.07+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $0.07 · low $0.07

NM$0.07

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$0.06–$0.07modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $0.07low $0.03range 133.3%n 50

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #22,930 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.07

Nonfoil$0.07

Gameplay

Creature — Mutant Scout

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/+1 until end of turn. Max speed — {3}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Draw a card.

2/3

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

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

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.

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 $0.07. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.07 across 50 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

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

Card type: Creature — Mutant Scout, color identity black, printed at common. Commons fill the bulk of a booster pack's volume. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 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 #22,930 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Nicholas Gregory. Rarix catalogs 433 other cards credited to this artist.