Card

Vnwxt, Verbose Host

Mana cost {1}{U}

Legendary Creature — Homunculus 0/4

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.) You have no maximum hand size. Max speed — If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

Part of 44 known combos, one of them two-card. 9 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · DFT · #73
Cheapest printing
€0.39
EDHREC salt
0.27
Color identity
Blue
Keywords
Max speed, Start your engines!

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Peer into the Abyss
  • B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Peer into the Abyss
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • Two-card combo with Peer into the Abyss (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

44 known combos, one of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, this creature’s last ability doubles each card draw. For example, if you cast Harmonize (“Draw three cards”), you’ll draw six cards.
  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    “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.
  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player who’s drawing the card chooses what order to apply them.
  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    The effects of multiple such effects are cumulative. For example, if you have max speed and control both Vnwxt and Thought Reflection (an enchantment with the same ability), you’ll draw four times the original number of cards.
  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
  • 2025-02-07 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    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 · Wizards of the Coast
    Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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