Start Your Engines 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
Vehicles you control become artifact creatures until end of turn. Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.
How it works : Start Your Engines
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Vehicles you control become artifact creatures and then also get +2/+0.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Interactions with other cards
These cards' text mentions Start Your Engines.

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.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Add {C}{C}.

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.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {T}: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.

Start your engines! Other Goblins you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token attacks this combat if able. Max speed — {T}: Add {R} for each Goblin you control.

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.

Mendicant Core's power is equal to the number of artifacts you control. 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 — Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, copy it. (The copy becomes a token.)

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.) {T}: Add {C}. Max speed — {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

Flying, trample 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.) At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.

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.) When this artifact enters, draw two cards, then discard a card. Max speed — Spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

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.) {T}: Add one mana of any color. Max speed — {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

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.) {2}, {T}: Draw a card. Max speed — Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards. (Each opponent puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)

Indestructible, 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.) {1}, {T}: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn. Hazoret can't attack or block unless you have max speed.

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.) When this artifact enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield. Max speed — {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
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