Start Your Engines
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.22 € · ★ 0.44 € · 0.30 $ · ★ 1.24 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Vehicles you control become artifact creatures until end of turn. Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Darek Zabrocki
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-09-30
Flavour text
Inventors from around the world have come to the Fair hoping their creations will fly, drive, or sail their way to a top prize.
Rulings
The set of Vehicles and creatures affected by Start Your Engines is determined as the spell resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't get +2/+0, and Vehicles you begin to control later in the turn won't automatically become creatures and won't get +2/+0.
Vehicles you control become artifact creatures and then also get +2/+0.