Surge Engine
Click the card to switch sides
Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic Online PromosPRM · #105862
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Defender : This creature loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked." : This creature becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if this creature doesn't have defender. : Draw three cards. Activate only if this creature is blue and only once.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Volkan Baǵa
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Rulings
If Surge Engine loses defender in some way other than its first ability, its second ability may still be activated. Likewise, if it becomes blue in some way other than its second ability, its last ability may still be activated. Note that an effect that allows a creature to "attack as though it didn't have defender" doesn't actually cause it to lose defender.
If a Surge Engine whose last ability has been activated leaves the battlefield and comes back, it's a new object on the battlefield and its last ability can be activated again (once it's blue, of course).
Surge Engine's last ability can be activated only once per game, not once per turn.
