Embalmed Ascendant

Creature — Zombie

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.)

When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Max speed — Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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Set

Aetherdrift (DFT #201)

Rarity

Uncommon

Mana value

3

Released

2025-02-14

Artist

Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo

EDHREC rank

#15,888

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos 94

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Format legality

Rulings

• 2025-02-07

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

• 2025-02-07

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

• 2025-02-07

  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.

• 2025-02-07

  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.

• 2025-02-07

  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.

• 2025-02-07

  “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.