Embalmed Ascendant
Creature — Zombie
Embalmed Ascendant
Creature — Zombie
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.)
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.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 3
- Colors
- Black, White
- Color Identity
- Black, White
- Power / Toughness
- 1 / 2
- EDHREC Rank
- #15,932
Format Legalities
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (6)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | en | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | $0.10 | $0.18 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | de | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | es | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | fr | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | it | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #201 | uncommon | ja | Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo | — | — |
Official Rulings (6)
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.
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
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.
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
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.
“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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