Streaking Oilgorger

Creature — Vampire

Illustrated by Campbell White

F

EDHREC Rank #21,813

Flying, haste 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 — This creature has lifelink.

"They feed on OIL? Where were they during the Phyrexian Invasion?!" —Chandra Nalaar

Rulings (6)

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.

Feb 7, 2025

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.

Feb 7, 2025

Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.

Feb 7, 2025