Gastal Raider

Mana Value

3

Rarity

uncommon

Gastal Raider

Creature — Vampire Rogue

{2}{B}
Color Identity: B

Card Text

Start your engines! When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it. That player discards that card. Max speed — This creature gets +1/+1 and has menace.

Power/Toughness: 2/1

Keywords

Max speed Start your engines!

Set

Aetherdrift

(DFT)

EDHREC Rank

#19,294

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.

Wotc — February 07, 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.

Wotc — February 07, 2025

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

Wotc — February 07, 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.

Wotc — February 07, 2025

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

Wotc — February 07, 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.

Wotc — February 07, 2025

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