Starting Column
Mana value3TypeArtifact
Color identity
Colorless
RarityCommon
SetAetherdrift (DFT)
ArtistJakub Kasper
Price€0.04 · foil €0.15 · $0.24About this card
Starting Column is an artifact card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: colorless). Printed in Aetherdrift (2025). Role in Commander: ramp and card draw. Legal in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cardmarket price: €0.04.
Starting Column
: Add one mana of any color.Max speed —
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards, then discard a card.Ten teams. Ten dreams. One winner.
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Rulings
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
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
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
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.
