MScore: 4.0/10
Endrider Spikespitter
Creature — Human Mercenaryuncommon
Reach
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 — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
3/4
Illustrated by Mila Pesic · Aetherdrift · #125
Rulings for Endrider Spikespitter
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2025-02-07
You must pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for cards you play using this creature’s last ability.
2025-02-07
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.
2025-02-07
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.
2025-02-07
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
2025-02-07
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.
2025-02-07
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
2025-02-07
“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.
: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)
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. This mana can't be spent to cast a nonartifact spell.")