Howlsquad Heavy
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Goblin Mercenary
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- Aetherdrift #134 (rare)
- Price
- $2.55 USD
Start your engines!
Other Goblins you control have haste.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token attacks this combat if able.
Max speed — {T}: Add {R} for each Goblin you control.
Howlsquad Heavy has 7 printings, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #2,954 among Commander cards. It appears most in Krenko, Mob Boss decks (19,273 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Howlsquad Heavy
- Goblin Storm Secret Lair Commander, led by Zada, Hedron Grinder
Commanders that run Howlsquad Heavy most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Krenko, Mob Boss: 19,273 decks
- Zada, Hedron Grinder: 4,212 decks
- The Great Goblin: 3,246 decks
- Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie: 2,853 decks
- General Kreat, the Boltbringer: 1,562 decks
- Samut, the Driving Force: 1,512 decks
- Muxus, Goblin Grandee: 1,489 decks
- Ingris Stingerquill: 1,254 decks
Often played with Howlsquad Heavy
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : Mana abilities don’t use the stack, which means that they can’t be responded to. Notably, this means that a player can’t respond to this creature’s last ability by destroying one of your Goblins.
- : “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.
- : Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.