Samut, the Driving Force Price
5 printings · 2 sets · first printed 2025
Samut, the Driving Force has been printed 5 times across 2 sets, first in 2025. Right now the cheapest printing is Aetherdrift #222 at $0.23, while the most expensive is Aetherdrift #492 at $1.27 — about 6× more. The median across 5 priced printings is $0.49. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 5x in the last 2 years.
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Every Samut, the Driving Force Printing, Compared
Cheapest first · unpriced last| Printing | Year | Price | Dealer Buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetherdrift #222 (R) Cheapest | 2025 | $0.23 | — |
| Aetherdrift #367 (R) | 2025 | $0.30 | — |
| Aetherdrift Promos #222s (R) Foil | 2025 | $0.49 | $0.11 foil |
| Aetherdrift Promos #222p (R) | 2025 | $0.56 | $0.10 foil |
| Aetherdrift #492 (R) Foil | 2025 | $1.27 | $1.40 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.)
Other creatures you control get +X/+0, where X is your speed.
Noncreature spells you cast cost
less to cast, where X is your speed.Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 5 versions.
Official Judge Precedents
6 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.
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
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.
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.
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.