Starting Column - Common Artifact card from Aetherdrift
Back face of Starting Column - Artifact card

Starting Column

Type: Artifact
Colors:
Number: 244
Finishes:
nonfoilfoil
Reprint: No
Card Text:
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.)
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Max speed — {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards, then discard a card.
Printings:
Finish Market Price Lowest Price Highest Price Average Price
Normal $0.03 $0.01 $0.99 $0.09
Foil $0.08 $0.06 $0.43 $0.11
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Legality

Alchemy

Brawl

Commander

Duel

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Historic

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Modern

Oathbreaker

Pauper

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Standard

Timeless

Rulings
Feb 7, 2025

A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.

Feb 7, 2025

Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.

Feb 7, 2025

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.

Feb 7, 2025

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.

Feb 7, 2025

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.

Feb 7, 2025

“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.