First printed in Aetherdrift (2025)
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Cleric
First strike, vigilance, haste
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.)
Other creatures you control get +X/+0, where X is your speed.
Noncreature spells you cast cost 
less to cast, where X is your speed.
4/5
- Illustrated by
- Chris Rallis
- Watermark
- Desparked
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
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.
- 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.
- A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- 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: 0.006 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 | 56.1% | +1.2 | +4.0 | 8940 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT), Sealed | 60.8% | +3.7 | +8.2 | 727 |
- 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
123 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count…: Samut, the Driving Force + Sprout Swarm
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Recruit the Worthy + Samut, the Driving Force + Storm-Kiln Artist
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Samut, the Driving Force + Searing Touch + Storm-Kiln Artist
- Infinite storm count, Infinite magecraft triggers…: Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Haze of Rage + Samut, the Driving Force
- Destroy all artifacts opponents control, Destroy all artifacts that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control…: Samut, the Driving Force + Shattering Pulse + Storm-Kiln Artist
- Infinite damage, Infinite storm count…: Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Samut, the Driving Force + Searing Touch
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Mystic Forge + Samut, the Driving Force + Sensei's Divining Top
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Samut, the Driving Force + Seething Anger + Storm-Kiln Artist
- Infinite damage, Infinite storm count…: Haze of Rage + Samut, the Driving Force + Urabrask // The Great Work
- Infinite damage, Infinite storm count…: Samut, the Driving Force + Searing Touch + Urabrask // The Great Work