Mendicant Core

Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Nº 485 - RARE - Aetherdrift
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Mendicant Core’s power is equal to the number of artifacts you control.
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 — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay . If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

DFT · EN Zezhou Chen
2025-02-14

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Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot 2 */3
Foil Nonfoil Promo Fecha
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Max speed
Set Name Set Code Set Type
Aetherdrift DFT EXPANSION
release: setsize: 291 totalsetsize: 553
onlyFoil: no onlyNonFoil: no
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BORDER COLOR YELLOW
FRAME 2015
Date Source Comment
07-02-2025 wotc 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.
07-02-2025 wotc “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.
07-02-2025 wotc A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
07-02-2025 wotc A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token, so the token isn’t “created.” Effects that care about a token being created won’t interact with a token that enters the battlefield from Mendicant Core’s last ability.
07-02-2025 wotc Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
07-02-2025 wotc 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.
07-02-2025 wotc 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.
07-02-2025 wotc The copy remembers any decisions that were made for the original spell as it was cast, including values chosen for X in its mana cost and whether any alternative or additional costs were chosen. For example, if the original artifact spell had kicker and its kicker cost was paid, the copy will also be kicked.