Mendicant Core, Guidelight Price
5 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2025
Mendicant Core, Guidelight has been printed 5 times across 2 sets, first in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Aetherdrift #213 at $0.65, while the most expensive is Aetherdrift #485 at $9.89 — about 15× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $1.56. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x in the last 2 years.
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Every Mendicant Core, Guidelight Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetherdrift #213 (R) Cheapest | 2025 | $0.65 | $0.60 |
| Aetherdrift Promos #213p (R) | 2025 | $0.65 | $0.45 foil |
| Aetherdrift #365 (R) | 2025 | $1.56 | $0.80 |
| Aetherdrift Promos #213s (R) Foil | 2025 | $2.34 | $1.35 foil |
| Aetherdrift #485 (R) Foil | 2025 | $9.89 | $4.00 foil |
Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.
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.)Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
8 Precedents“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.