Slick Imitator
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Ooze
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 3
- Set
- Aetherdrift #62 (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.)
Max speed — {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Copy target spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Slick Imitator has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #16,100 among Commander cards. It appears most in Vnwxt, Verbose Host decks (1,518 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Slick Imitator most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Vnwxt, Verbose Host: 1,518 decks
- Uugguu, the Omniplasm: 668 decks
- Donatello, Turtle Techie: 1 decks
- Tiger Shark, Abyssal Hunter
Often played with Slick Imitator
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
- : “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.