Point the Way
- Mana cost
- {G}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Aetherdrift #175 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.26 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.)
{3}{G}, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is your speed. Put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Point the Way has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #13,345 among Commander cards. It appears most in Samut, the Driving Force decks (3,230 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 Point the Way most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Samut, the Driving Force: 3,230 decks
- Loot, the Pathfinder: 451 decks
- Redshift, Rocketeer Chief: 179 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria: 117 decks
- Sita Varma, Masked Racer: 37 decks
- Lagorin, Soul of Alacria: 16 decks
- Ant-Man, Reformed Rogue: 2 decks
- She-Hulk, Attorney-at-Law: 1 decks
Often played with Point the Way
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : “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.
- : 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.
- : 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.