Mutant Surveyor
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Mutant Scout
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 3
- Set
- Aetherdrift #98 (common)
- Price
- $0.17 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.)
{2}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Max speed — {3}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Draw a card.
Mutant Surveyor has 1 printing, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #23,674 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Speed Demon decks (326 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mutant Surveyor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Speed Demon: 326 decks
- Far Fortune, End Boss: 311 decks
Often played with Mutant Surveyor
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.
- : 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.
- : 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.