Samut, the Driving Force
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}{G}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Cleric
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 5
- Set
- Aetherdrift #367 (rare)
- Price
- $0.33 USD
First strike, vigilance, haste
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.)
Other creatures you control get +X/+0, where X is your speed.
Noncreature spells you cast cost {X} less to cast, where X is your speed.
Samut, the Driving Force has 5 printings, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #13,036 among Commander cards. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Often played with Samut, the Driving Force
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.
- : 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.
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : 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.