Slick Imitator
Creature — Ooze
Slick Imitator
Creature — Ooze
Card Text
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 — , 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.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 2
- Colors
- Blue
- Color Identity
- Blue
- Power / Toughness
- 1 / 3
- EDHREC Rank
- #17,652
Format Legalities
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (6)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | en | Xabi Gaztelua | $0.07 | $0.10 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | de | Xabi Gaztelua | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | es | Xabi Gaztelua | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | fr | Xabi Gaztelua | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | it | Xabi Gaztelua | — | — |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) | #62 | uncommon | ja | Xabi Gaztelua | — | — |
Official Rulings (6)
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
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