Aether Syphon
Aetherdrift · #38 · Uncommon
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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.)
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: 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.)
Card details
- Shown printing
- Aetherdrift (DFT)
- Artist
- Martin de Diego Sádaba
- Color identity
- Blue
- Colors
- Blue
- Mana value
- 3
- Keywords
- Max speed, Mill, Start your engines!
- First released
- February 14, 2025
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #8451 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.31 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
- Related cards
- Start Your Engines! // Max Speed (Related)
Legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureLegal
Rulings (6)
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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