Art by Helge C. Balzer
The Speed Demon
Legendary Creature — Demon
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.
Average Card Type Breakdown
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Most Played With The Speed Demon (195)
Sol Ring
85% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
70% of decks · $0.49
Thought Vessel
60% of decks
Consuming Corruption
54% of decks · $0.26
Creeping Bloodsucker
53% of decks · $4.82
Bontu's Monument
53% of decks · $4.60
Psychosis Crawler
52% of decks · $2.43
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
50% of decks
Toxic Deluge
49% of decks · $5.17
Starting Column
49% of decks · $0.21
Defile
47% of decks · $1.32
Twilight Prophet
46% of decks · $3.77
Reanimate
46% of decks · $10.11
Gixian Puppeteer
45% of decks · $1.23
Whip of Erebos
45% of decks · $9.52
Lightning Greaves
45% of decks · $4.00
Swiftfoot Boots
43% of decks
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
42% of decks · $1.12
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
42% of decks · $98.82
Infernal Grasp
41% of decks · $0.33
Imp's Mischief
41% of decks · $9.14
Vilis, Broker of Blood
40% of decks · $9.77
Dread Presence
39% of decks · $3.39
Sign in Blood
38% of decks · $2.74
Phyrexian Arena
38% of decks · $4.26
Solemn Simulacrum
36% of decks · $0.34
Mind Stone
35% of decks
Ayara, First of Locthwain
35% of decks · $8.55
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
34% of decks · $10.35
Starving Revenant
33% of decks · $0.32
The Darkness Crystal
32% of decks · $4.03
Noxious Gearhulk
32% of decks · $0.45
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
32% of decks · $36.39
Malakir Rebirth
31% of decks
Enduring Tenacity
30% of decks · $14.87
Go for the Throat
30% of decks · $0.62
Wayfarer's Bauble
30% of decks · $5.61
Black Market Connections
30% of decks · $10.47
Night's Whisper
30% of decks · $6.25
Archenemy's Charm
30% of decks · $1.09
Blasphemous Edict
30% of decks · $4.13
Exquisite Blood
29% of decks · $40.38
Qarsi Revenant
29% of decks · $2.27
Basilisk Collar
29% of decks · $3.74
Vampire Nighthawk
29% of decks · $0.20
Massacre Wurm
28% of decks · $2.43
Charcoal Diamond
28% of decks · $0.35
Fell the Profane
28% of decks
Venser's Journal
28% of decks · $8.96
Blood Artist
27% of decks · $3.84
Deadly Rollick
27% of decks · $28.68
Bubbling Muck
25% of decks · $4.87
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
25% of decks · $36.73
Nighthawk Scavenger
25% of decks · $0.60
The Meathook Massacre
24% of decks · $24.67
Decanter of Endless Water
22% of decks · $5.27
Victimize
22% of decks · $1.34
Ardyn, the Usurper
22% of decks · $1.49
Sanguine Bond
22% of decks · $7.89
Scrawling Crawler
22% of decks · $6.60
Dauthi Voidwalker
22% of decks · $5.80
Animate Dead
22% of decks · $7.00
Changeling Outcast
21% of decks · $2.38
Insatiable Avarice
21% of decks · $6.15
Risky Shortcut
21% of decks · $0.30
Damnation
20% of decks · $21.01
Bolas's Citadel
20% of decks · $16.17
Crypt Incursion
19% of decks · $0.34
Expedition Map
19% of decks · $1.44
Demon's Horn
19% of decks · $1.20
Marauding Blight-Priest
19% of decks · $0.32
Fellwar Stone
19% of decks
The Soul Stone
18% of decks · $84.20
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
18% of decks · $18.23
Archfiend of Depravity
18% of decks · $3.25
Sangromancer
18% of decks · $1.00
Torment of Hailfire
18% of decks · $36.34
Darkness
17% of decks · $23.79
Baleful Mastery
17% of decks · $2.53
Snuff Out
17% of decks · $12.98
Gifted Aetherborn
17% of decks · $0.37
Cabal Ritual
17% of decks
Demonic Tutor
17% of decks · $69.17
Bitter Triumph
17% of decks · $0.31
Shadowspear
16% of decks · $30.19
Abyssal Harvester
16% of decks · $0.34
Starscream, Power Hungry
16% of decks
Nirkana Revenant
16% of decks · $6.80
Liliana of the Dark Realms
16% of decks · $9.30
Sheoldred's Edict
16% of decks · $1.33
Bloodchief Ascension
15% of decks · $21.38
Boggart Trawler
15% of decks
Read the Bones
14% of decks · $0.29
Mutilate
14% of decks · $2.15
Morbid Opportunist
14% of decks · $0.36
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
14% of decks · $0.60
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
14% of decks · $4.12
Basilica Screecher
14% of decks · $0.26
Ancient Cellarspawn
13% of decks · $6.35
Sceptre of Eternal Glory
13% of decks · $20.11
Pact Weapon
13% of decks · $3.63
Phyrexian Obliterator
13% of decks · $9.46
The Last Ride
13% of decks · $0.37
Rise of the Dark Realms
13% of decks · $6.49
Alhammarret's Archive
13% of decks · $10.52
Throne of Eldraine
13% of decks · $29.42
Maximum Overdrive
13% of decks · $0.19
Vampiric Tutor
13% of decks · $54.45
Scheming Silvertongue
12% of decks
Bloodghast
12% of decks · $0.92
Starscape Cleric
12% of decks · $0.84
Sudden Spoiling
12% of decks · $6.86
Stensian Sanguinist
12% of decks
Soul Shatter
12% of decks · $6.14
Aetherflux Reservoir
12% of decks · $21.47
Flare of Malice
11% of decks · $3.09
Dismember
11% of decks · $4.78
Pontiff of Blight
11% of decks · $0.35
Eternal Thirst
11% of decks · $0.37
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
11% of decks · $0.65
Virtue of Persistence
11% of decks
Demonic Counsel
10% of decks · $2.40
Staff of the Death Magus
10% of decks · $0.41
Defiler of Flesh
10% of decks · $0.41
Zulaport Cutthroat
10% of decks · $1.34
Orcish Bowmasters
10% of decks · $44.46
Tragic Slip
10% of decks · $0.26
Rune-Scarred Demon
10% of decks · $1.38
Caged Sun
10% of decks · $3.87
The Aetherspark
10% of decks · $20.17
Ivory Tower
9% of decks
Tendrils of Corruption
9% of decks · $0.32
Peer into the Abyss
9% of decks · $3.64
Mask of Griselbrand
9% of decks · $0.97
Saw in Half
9% of decks · $5.72
Bitterblossom
9% of decks · $32.66
Supernatural Stamina
9% of decks · $0.21
Decree of Pain
9% of decks · $0.36
Force of Despair
9% of decks · $7.08
Commander's Sphere
9% of decks · $0.34
Doom Blade
8% of decks · $0.24
Repay in Kind
8% of decks · $3.68
Kaya's Ghostform
8% of decks · $1.73
Deadly Dispute
8% of decks · $0.26
Demonic Covenant
8% of decks · $0.31
Agadeem's Awakening
8% of decks
Heartless Summoning
8% of decks · $1.84
Vampiric Link
8% of decks · $3.01
Murder
8% of decks · $0.18
Thran Dynamo
8% of decks · $4.43
Undying Malice
8% of decks · $0.41
Worn Powerstone
8% of decks · $0.38
Diabolic Tutor
7% of decks · $2.21
Commander's Plate
7% of decks · $38.74
Profane Transfusion
7% of decks · $1.46
Meathook Massacre II
7% of decks · $2.47
Blood Money
7% of decks · $2.72
Sword of War and Peace
7% of decks · $9.88
Pristine Talisman
7% of decks · $0.40
Black Market
7% of decks · $6.40
Necropotence
7% of decks · $38.23
Erebos's Intervention
7% of decks · $0.51
Underworld Dreams
7% of decks · $2.35
Decorum Dissertation
7% of decks · $5.28
Extraplanar Lens
7% of decks · $14.06
No Mercy
7% of decks · $24.61
March of Wretched Sorrow
7% of decks · $0.33
Spellbook
7% of decks · $4.51
The One Ring
7% of decks · $116.27
Liliana's Contract
7% of decks · $4.53
Everflowing Chalice
7% of decks · $0.30
Cryptolith Fragment
7% of decks
Not Dead After All
6% of decks · $1.62
Hand of Vecna
6% of decks · $0.36
Overkill
6% of decks · $0.30
Withering Boon
6% of decks · $11.17
Syphon Mind
6% of decks · $0.31
Blood Tithe
6% of decks · $0.30
Cryptcaller Chariot
6% of decks · $0.40
Nyx Lotus
6% of decks · $4.71
Dark Deal
6% of decks · $2.21
Painful Quandary
6% of decks · $1.84
Sinister Monolith
6% of decks · $0.29
Culling the Weak
6% of decks · $8.04
Prism Ring
6% of decks · $0.35
Necromancy
6% of decks · $19.72
Revenge of Ravens
6% of decks · $0.38
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
6% of decks · $0.73
Demonic Junker
6% of decks · $0.34
Wound Reflection
6% of decks · $14.42
Feign Death
5% of decks · $0.79
Bastion of Remembrance
5% of decks · $0.30
Sorin Markov
5% of decks · $9.55
Dread Return
5% of decks · $0.60
Living Death
5% of decks · $6.62
New Cards
Troop of Ponies
5% of decks · $0.33
Hall of Echoes
4% of decks · $2.70
Avacyn, Angel of Horror
4% of decks · $15.93
The Master of Lake-town
3% of decks · $0.51
Lich's Relic
3% of decks · $1.20
Creatures (50)
Creeping Bloodsucker
53% of decks · $4.82
Psychosis Crawler
52% of decks · $2.43
Twilight Prophet
46% of decks · $3.77
Gixian Puppeteer
45% of decks · $1.23
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
42% of decks · $1.12
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
42% of decks · $98.82
Vilis, Broker of Blood
40% of decks · $9.77
Dread Presence
39% of decks · $3.39
Solemn Simulacrum
36% of decks · $0.34
Ayara, First of Locthwain
35% of decks · $8.55
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
34% of decks · $10.35
Starving Revenant
33% of decks · $0.32
Noxious Gearhulk
32% of decks · $0.45
Bloodthirsty Conqueror
32% of decks · $36.39
Enduring Tenacity
30% of decks · $14.87
Qarsi Revenant
29% of decks · $2.27
Vampire Nighthawk
29% of decks · $0.20
Massacre Wurm
28% of decks · $2.43
Blood Artist
27% of decks · $3.84
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
25% of decks · $36.73
Nighthawk Scavenger
25% of decks · $0.60
Ardyn, the Usurper
22% of decks · $1.49
Scrawling Crawler
22% of decks · $6.60
Dauthi Voidwalker
22% of decks · $5.80
Changeling Outcast
21% of decks · $2.38
Marauding Blight-Priest
19% of decks · $0.32
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
18% of decks · $18.23
Archfiend of Depravity
18% of decks · $3.25
Sangromancer
18% of decks · $1.00
Gifted Aetherborn
17% of decks · $0.37
Abyssal Harvester
16% of decks · $0.34
Starscream, Power Hungry
16% of decks
Nirkana Revenant
16% of decks · $6.80
Boggart Trawler
15% of decks
Morbid Opportunist
14% of decks · $0.36
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
14% of decks · $0.60
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
14% of decks · $4.12
Basilica Screecher
14% of decks · $0.26
Ancient Cellarspawn
13% of decks · $6.35
Phyrexian Obliterator
13% of decks · $9.46
Scheming Silvertongue
12% of decks
Bloodghast
12% of decks · $0.92
Starscape Cleric
12% of decks · $0.84
Stensian Sanguinist
12% of decks
Pontiff of Blight
11% of decks · $0.35
Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
11% of decks · $0.65
Defiler of Flesh
10% of decks · $0.41
Zulaport Cutthroat
10% of decks · $1.34
Orcish Bowmasters
10% of decks · $44.46
Rune-Scarred Demon
10% of decks · $1.38
Instants (38)
Consuming Corruption
54% of decks · $0.26
Defile
47% of decks · $1.32
Infernal Grasp
41% of decks · $0.33
Imp's Mischief
41% of decks · $9.14
Malakir Rebirth
31% of decks
Go for the Throat
30% of decks · $0.62
Archenemy's Charm
30% of decks · $1.09
Fell the Profane
28% of decks
Deadly Rollick
27% of decks · $28.68
Crypt Incursion
19% of decks · $0.34
Darkness
17% of decks · $23.79
Baleful Mastery
17% of decks · $2.53
Snuff Out
17% of decks · $12.98
Cabal Ritual
17% of decks
Bitter Triumph
17% of decks · $0.31
Sheoldred's Edict
16% of decks · $1.33
Maximum Overdrive
13% of decks · $0.19
Vampiric Tutor
13% of decks · $54.45
Sudden Spoiling
12% of decks · $6.86
Soul Shatter
12% of decks · $6.14
Flare of Malice
11% of decks · $3.09
Dismember
11% of decks · $4.78
Tragic Slip
10% of decks · $0.26
Tendrils of Corruption
9% of decks · $0.32
Saw in Half
9% of decks · $5.72
Supernatural Stamina
9% of decks · $0.21
Force of Despair
9% of decks · $7.08
Doom Blade
8% of decks · $0.24
Deadly Dispute
8% of decks · $0.26
Murder
8% of decks · $0.18
Undying Malice
8% of decks · $0.41
Erebos's Intervention
7% of decks · $0.51
March of Wretched Sorrow
7% of decks · $0.33
Not Dead After All
6% of decks · $1.62
Overkill
6% of decks · $0.30
Withering Boon
6% of decks · $11.17
Culling the Weak
6% of decks · $8.04
Feign Death
5% of decks · $0.79
Sorceries (29)
Toxic Deluge
49% of decks · $5.17
Reanimate
46% of decks · $10.11
Sign in Blood
38% of decks · $2.74
Night's Whisper
30% of decks · $6.25
Blasphemous Edict
30% of decks · $4.13
Bubbling Muck
25% of decks · $4.87
Victimize
22% of decks · $1.34
Insatiable Avarice
21% of decks · $6.15
Risky Shortcut
21% of decks · $0.30
Damnation
20% of decks · $21.01
Torment of Hailfire
18% of decks · $36.34
Demonic Tutor
17% of decks · $69.17
Read the Bones
14% of decks · $0.29
Mutilate
14% of decks · $2.15
Rise of the Dark Realms
13% of decks · $6.49
Demonic Counsel
10% of decks · $2.40
Peer into the Abyss
9% of decks · $3.64
Decree of Pain
9% of decks · $0.36
Repay in Kind
8% of decks · $3.68
Agadeem's Awakening
8% of decks
Diabolic Tutor
7% of decks · $2.21
Profane Transfusion
7% of decks · $1.46
Blood Money
7% of decks · $2.72
Decorum Dissertation
7% of decks · $5.28
Syphon Mind
6% of decks · $0.31
Blood Tithe
6% of decks · $0.30
Dark Deal
6% of decks · $2.21
Dread Return
5% of decks · $0.60
Living Death
5% of decks · $6.62
Utility Artifacts (29)
Bontu's Monument
53% of decks · $4.60
Whip of Erebos
45% of decks · $9.52
Lightning Greaves
45% of decks · $4.00
Swiftfoot Boots
43% of decks
The Darkness Crystal
32% of decks · $4.03
Wayfarer's Bauble
30% of decks · $5.61
Basilisk Collar
29% of decks · $3.74
Venser's Journal
28% of decks · $8.96
Bolas's Citadel
20% of decks · $16.17
Expedition Map
19% of decks · $1.44
Demon's Horn
19% of decks · $1.20
Shadowspear
16% of decks · $30.19
Pact Weapon
13% of decks · $3.63
The Last Ride
13% of decks · $0.37
Alhammarret's Archive
13% of decks · $10.52
Aetherflux Reservoir
12% of decks · $21.47
Staff of the Death Magus
10% of decks · $0.41
Ivory Tower
9% of decks
Mask of Griselbrand
9% of decks · $0.97
Commander's Plate
7% of decks · $38.74
Sword of War and Peace
7% of decks · $9.88
Spellbook
7% of decks · $4.51
The One Ring
7% of decks · $116.27
Cryptolith Fragment
7% of decks
Hand of Vecna
6% of decks · $0.36
Cryptcaller Chariot
6% of decks · $0.40
Sinister Monolith
6% of decks · $0.29
Prism Ring
6% of decks · $0.35
Demonic Junker
6% of decks · $0.34
Mana Artifacts (20)
Sol Ring
85% of decks · $1.38
Arcane Signet
70% of decks · $0.49
Thought Vessel
60% of decks
Starting Column
49% of decks · $0.21
Mind Stone
35% of decks
Charcoal Diamond
28% of decks · $0.35
Decanter of Endless Water
22% of decks · $5.27
Fellwar Stone
19% of decks
The Soul Stone
18% of decks · $84.20
Sceptre of Eternal Glory
13% of decks · $20.11
Throne of Eldraine
13% of decks · $29.42
Caged Sun
10% of decks · $3.87
The Aetherspark
10% of decks · $20.17
Commander's Sphere
9% of decks · $0.34
Thran Dynamo
8% of decks · $4.43
Worn Powerstone
8% of decks · $0.38
Pristine Talisman
7% of decks · $0.40
Extraplanar Lens
7% of decks · $14.06
Everflowing Chalice
7% of decks · $0.30
Nyx Lotus
6% of decks · $4.71
Enchantments (26)
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
50% of decks
Phyrexian Arena
38% of decks · $4.26
Black Market Connections
30% of decks · $10.47
Exquisite Blood
29% of decks · $40.38
The Meathook Massacre
24% of decks · $24.67
Sanguine Bond
22% of decks · $7.89
Animate Dead
22% of decks · $7.00
Bloodchief Ascension
15% of decks · $21.38
Eternal Thirst
11% of decks · $0.37
Virtue of Persistence
11% of decks
Bitterblossom
9% of decks · $32.66
Kaya's Ghostform
8% of decks · $1.73
Demonic Covenant
8% of decks · $0.31
Heartless Summoning
8% of decks · $1.84
Vampiric Link
8% of decks · $3.01
Meathook Massacre II
7% of decks · $2.47
Black Market
7% of decks · $6.40
Necropotence
7% of decks · $38.23
Underworld Dreams
7% of decks · $2.35
No Mercy
7% of decks · $24.61
Liliana's Contract
7% of decks · $4.53
Painful Quandary
6% of decks · $1.84
Necromancy
6% of decks · $19.72
Revenge of Ravens
6% of decks · $0.38
Wound Reflection
6% of decks · $14.42
Bastion of Remembrance
5% of decks · $0.30
Planeswalkers (3)
Liliana of the Dark Realms
16% of decks · $9.30
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
6% of decks · $0.73
Sorin Markov
5% of decks · $9.55
Utility Lands (25)
Reliquary Tower
63% of decks
Cabal Coffers
57% of decks
Bojuka Bog
50% of decks
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
40% of decks
Cabal Stronghold
34% of decks
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
32% of decks
Rogue's Passage
23% of decks
Witch's Cottage
20% of decks
Witch's Clinic
19% of decks
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
16% of decks
Phyrexian Tower
13% of decks
Temple of the False God
12% of decks
Castle Locthwain
12% of decks
War Room
12% of decks
Leechridden Swamp
11% of decks
Ancient Tomb
11% of decks
Urza's Saga
9% of decks
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
9% of decks
Susur Secundi, Void Altar
8% of decks
Terrain Generator
7% of decks
Mortuary Mire
7% of decks
Barren Moor
6% of decks
Westvale Abbey
6% of decks
Thespian's Stage
6% of decks
Spymaster's Vault
6% of decks
Lands (9)
Swamp
94% of decks
Malakir Rebirth
31% of decks
Myriad Landscape
30% of decks
Fell the Profane
28% of decks
Urza's Cave
16% of decks
Boggart Trawler
15% of decks
Demolition Field
10% of decks
Agadeem's Awakening
8% of decks
Snow-Covered Swamp
7% of decks
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