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Surge Engine
Card Information
Type: Artifact Creature — Construct
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: The Brothers' War (BRO)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 81
Oracle Text
Defender {U}: This creature loses defender and gains "This creature can't be blocked." {2}{U}: This creature becomes blue and has base power and toughness 5/4. Activate only if this creature doesn't have defender. {4}{U}{U}: Draw three cards. Activate only if this creature is blue and only once.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 14, 2022
If a Surge Engine whose last ability has been activated leaves the battlefield and comes back, it's a new object on the battlefield and its last ability can be activated again (once it's blue, of course).
Source: wotc - October 14, 2022
Surge Engine's last ability can be activated only once per game, not once per turn.
Source: wotc - October 14, 2022
If Surge Engine loses defender in some way other than its first ability, its second ability may still be activated. Likewise, if it becomes blue in some way other than its second ability, its last ability may still be activated. Note that an effect that allows a creature to "attack as though it didn't have defender" doesn't actually cause it to lose defender.
Source: wotc
Price History
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