Risen Necroregent

Mana cost: {4}{B}
Type: Creature — Zombie Cat Knight
Power / toughness: 5 / 4
Set: Aetherdrift #102 (uncommon)
Price: $0.25 USD

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.)
Max speed — At the beginning of your end step, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Risen Necroregent has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #16,849 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Speed Demon decks (535 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.

Legality

commander: legal
legacy: legal
vintage: legal
pauper: not legal
modern: legal
pioneer: legal
standard: legal
brawl: legal

Commanders that run Risen Necroregent most

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Rulings

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: “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.
2025-02-07: A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
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.

Printings

Aetherdrift #102