Embalmed Ascendant
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Zombie
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 2
- Set
- Aetherdrift #201 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.28 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.)
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.
Embalmed Ascendant has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #15,853 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zahur, Glory's Past decks (760 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 Embalmed Ascendant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zahur, Glory's Past: 760 decks
- Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise: 123 decks
Often played with Embalmed Ascendant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : “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.
- : 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.
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.