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Samut, the Driving Force

Samut, the Driving Force

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Cleric

Samut wants a deck that is built around one creature type, like Elves or Dragons. It also suits a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them.

  • Mana cost3 genericredgreenwhite
  • White, Red, Green ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 5
  • RarityRare

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 cost X less to cast, where X is your speed.

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Cards That Fit Samut, the Driving Force

Picked for what they do in Samut's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Samut's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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The 6 Cards

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Rulings for Samut, the Driving Force

explain how Samut works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 2025

“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.

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 2025

A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 2025

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

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 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.

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 2025

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.

Wizards of the Coast 7 Feb 2025

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.

6 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Samut, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWRGPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, R for red, G for green.Typal/KindredTypal decks are built around one creature type, like Elves, Dragons or Zombies, with cards that make that type stronger. The type is printed after the dash on the card's type line, and the strategy is also called kindred or tribal.Open the Typal/Kindred pageAnthemA card that makes every creature you control bigger for as long as it stays on the battlefield. The whole team gets the bonus at once, instead of one creature getting a boost that wears off. Named after Glorious Anthem.Open the Anthem pageStatic BuffGives creatures a lasting bonus to power and toughness while it remains on the battlefield, rather than a boost that wears off at end of turn. Garruk's Uprising, Patchwork BannerOpen the Static Buff pageStat ScalingA creature whose power and toughness count something, so it grows as the game goes on. It might count lands you control or cards in your graveyard. Craterhoof Behemoth, Psychosis CrawlerOpen the Stat Scaling pageCost ModificationChanges what a spell costs to cast: cheaper for you, or more expensive for everyone. It is the broad family; Cost Reducer and Spell Tax say which direction a given card goes. Herald's Horn, Foundry InspectorOpen the Cost Modification pageTokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens page