Aetherdrift

Aether Syphon

Artifact

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.) , : Draw a card. Max speed — Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards. (Each opponent puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Printing details

About this card

Set: Aetherdrift (DFT)
Collector number: 38
Rarity: Uncommon
Released: February 14, 2025
Artist: Martin de Diego Sádaba
Language: English
Mana value: 3
Oracle ID: d8956775-fda8-475d-9e8a-b61196a958ea

Color profile

Color identity

Blue

Format check

Legality

TLR: Legal
Duel: Legal
Brawl: Legal
Penny: Not legal
PreDH: Not legal
Future: Legal
Legacy: Legal
Modern: Legal
Pauper: Not legal
Alchemy: Legal
Pioneer: Legal
Vintage: Legal
Historic: Legal
Standard: Legal
Timeless: Legal
Commander: Legal
Gladiator: Legal
Old School: Not legal
Premodern: Not legal
Oathbreaker: Legal
Standard Brawl: Legal
Pauper Commander: Not legal
Competitive Brawl: Legal

Official notes

Rulings

February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

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.
February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

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.
February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

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.
February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
February 7, 2025 Wizards of the Coast

“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.

Card links

Cards found together in sampled public decks. Lands are excluded and different printings count as one card. This suggests shared play, not a proven combo.

No sampled co-occurrences found

No other nonland cards were found alongside this card in the sampled public decks.

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