First printed in Aetherdrift (2025)
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature or Vehicle
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.)
Enchanted permanent gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.
Max speed — You may cast this card from your graveyard.
- Illustrated by
- Yeong-Hao Han
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, PreDH
Rulings (6)
- “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.
- A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- 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.
- 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.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 30 Oct 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aetherdrift (DFT), Premier Draft | 48.5% | -6.4 | -4.9 | 7180 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT), Sealed | 49.0% | -8.1 | -3.3 | 779 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
23 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Historian's Boon + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB…: Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar + Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Ajani's Chosen + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Archon of Sun's Grace + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Dawn Evangel + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar + Phyrexian Walker
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Koll, the Forgemaster + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar + Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Koll, the Forgemaster + Lightwheel Enhancements + Memnite + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Kobolds of Kher Keep + Koll, the Forgemaster + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Crookshank Kobolds + Koll, the Forgemaster + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Crimson Kobolds + Koll, the Forgemaster + Lightwheel Enhancements + Phyrexian Altar
