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Aetherdrift (DFT | #213 | 2025-02-14)
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Mendicant Core, Guidelight

WU
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
Artist: Zezhou Chen
All artists: Zezhou Chen , Dan Mumford

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 1. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

*/3
UW
$0.92 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Aetherdrift 213 Regular Nonfoil $0.92
Aetherdrift 213 Regular Foil $1.34
Aetherdrift Promos 213p Promo Nonfoil $1.61
Aetherdrift Promos 213p Promo Foil $2.61
Aetherdrift Promos 213s Promo Foil $2.15
Aetherdrift 365 Borderless Nonfoil $1.53
Aetherdrift 365 Borderless Foil $2.53
Aetherdrift 485 Regular Foil $9.92

Price History

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Printings (5)

Mendicant Core, Guidelight — Aetherdrift
Aetherdrift
#213 Rare $0.92
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Zezhou Chen
Mendicant Core, Guidelight — Aetherdrift Promos
Aetherdrift Promos
#213p Rare $1.61
Promo Nonfoil Foil
Zezhou Chen
Mendicant Core, Guidelight — Aetherdrift Promos
Aetherdrift Promos
#213s Rare —
Promo Foil
Zezhou Chen
Mendicant Core, Guidelight — Aetherdrift
Aetherdrift
#365 Rare $1.53
Borderless Nonfoil Foil
Dan Mumford
Mendicant Core, Guidelight — Aetherdrift
Aetherdrift
#485 Rare —
Regular Foil
Zezhou Chen

Rulings

2025-02-07 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.
2025-02-07 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.
2025-02-07 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.
2025-02-07 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.
2025-02-07 wotc
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
2025-02-07 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.
2025-02-07 wotc
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
2025-02-07 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.

Format Legality

Standard Legal
Future Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Gladiator Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Legal
Brawl Legal
Alchemy Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Not Legal
Predh Not Legal