Howlsquad Heavy
Howlsquad Heavy: Creature - Goblin Mercenary, Aetherdrift. Start your engines! Other Goblins you control have haste. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Goblin Mercenary
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 2/3
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Aetherdrift (DFT)
- Released
- 2025-02-14
- Collector number
- 134
- Artist
- Leonardo Santanna
- Commander rank
- 3,318 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Max speed, Start your engines!
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About Howlsquad Heavy
Howlsquad Heavy is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red creature from Aetherdrift (DFT), an expansion set released in February 2025. It is collector number 134 in that set, with art by Leonardo Santanna. It costs {2}{R} (two generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/3 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from The List (2020) to Aetherdrift (2025). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.19 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.19 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Howlsquad Heavy by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Howlsquad Heavy
Howlsquad Heavy has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #DFT-134 | Rare | 2026 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) #342 | Rare | 2025 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) #463 | Rare | 2025 |
| Aetherdrift (DFT) #541 | Rare | 2025 |
| Aetherdrift Promos (PDFT) #134p | Rare | 2025 |
| Aetherdrift Promos (PDFT) #134s | Rare | 2025 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Howlsquad Heavy, newest first.
- A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- Mana abilities don’t use the stack, which means that they can’t be responded to. Notably, this means that a player can’t respond to this creature’s last ability by destroying one of your Goblins.
- “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.
- Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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Howlsquad Heavy is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.