Samut, the Driving Force is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
First strike, vigilance, 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.) Other creatures you control get +X/+0, where X is your speed. Noncreature spells you cast costless to cast, where X is your speed.
How it works : Samut, the Driving Force
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Samut, the Driving Force + Sprout Swarm
- 1Cast Sprout Swarm with buyback by tapping a green creature you control, creating a 1/1 Saproling creature token and returning Sprout Swarm to your hand.
- 2Repeat.
Samut, the Driving Force + Storm-Kiln Artist + Recruit the Worthy
- 1Cast Recruit the Worthy with buyback by paying
. - 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Resolve Recruit the Worthy.
- 4Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Samut, the Driving Force + Storm-Kiln Artist + Searing Touch
- 1Cast Searing Touch with buyback by paying
. - 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Resolve Searing Touch.
- 4Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 5Repeat.
Samut, the Driving Force + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Haze of Rage
- 1Cast Haze of Rage with buyback by paying .
- 2Birgi and Haze of Rage's storm ability trigger.
- 3Resolve the Birgi trigger, adding .
- 4Resolve the Haze of Rage trigger, copying it for each spell cast before it this turn.
- 5Resolve all Haze of Rages.
- 6Repeat.
Samut, the Driving Force + Storm-Kiln Artist + Shattering Pulse
- 1Cast Shattering Pulse with buyback by paying .
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Resolve Shattering Pulse, destroying an artifact and returning Shattering Pulse to your hand.
- 4When there is another artifact you wish to destroy, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding , and then repeat from step 1.
Samut, the Driving Force + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Searing Touch
- 1Cast Searing Touch with buyback by paying .
- 2Birgi triggers, adding .
- 3Resolve Searing Touch.
- 4Repeat.
Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge + Samut, the Driving Force
- 1Activate Sensei's Divining Top by tapping it, causing you to draw a card and put Sensei's Divining Top on top of your library.
- 2Cast Sensei's Divining Top from the top of your library by paying
. - 3Repeat
Samut, the Driving Force + Storm-Kiln Artist + Seething Anger
- 1Cast Seething Anger with buyback by paying .
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure token.
- 3Resolve Seething Anger.
- 4Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 5Repeat.
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