Vnwxt, Verbose Host
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.
Combos with Vnwxt, Verbose Host
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Peer into the Abyss Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Mindless Automaton Wizard Class Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Hollowhead Sliver Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite rummaging
- Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite rummaging
- Professor Zei, Anthropologist Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite looting
- Super-Skrull Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite looting
- Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
- Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
- Jacob Hauken, Inspector // Hauken's Insight Mind Over Matter Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite looting
- Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Sokrates, Athenian Teacher Body of Research Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers for target opponent
- Near-infinite card draw for target opponent
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2025-02-07
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.
- 2025-02-07
If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, this creature’s last ability doubles each card draw. For example, if you cast Harmonize (“Draw three cards”), you’ll draw six cards.
- 2025-02-07
“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.
- 2025-02-07
If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player who’s drawing the card chooses what order to apply them.
- 2025-02-07
The effects of multiple such effects are cumulative. For example, if you have max speed and control both Vnwxt and Thought Reflection (an enchantment with the same ability), you’ll draw four times the original number of cards.
- 2025-02-07
A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- 2025-02-07
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.
- 2025-02-07
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.
- 2025-02-07
Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Vnwxt, Verbose Host, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Council of Four | 1 | 3 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Azorius 1 deck
Every version of Vnwxt, Verbose Host
5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Inverted
- Normal
- $2.00
- Foil
- $3.93

Inverted
- Foil
- $15.82

- Normal
- $0.42
- Foil
- $0.69

Promo
Aetherdrift Promos
- Normal
- $0.43
- Foil
- $0.48

Promo
Aetherdrift Promos
- Foil
- $1.14
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Vnwxt, Verbose Host — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.