Accelerate

Accelerate is a Unit ability.

It is functionally short for "As you play me, you may pay 1[C] as an additional cost. If you do, I enter ready."

If the unit has one or more domains, the Power portion of the Accelerate cost can be paid only with a Power that matches one of the domains of the unit.

If the unit has no domain, the Power portion of the Accelerate cost can be paid with [A] (a Power of any domain).

It is an Optional Additional Cost to be paid as a player plays the unit with the ability.

Accelerate costs cannot be paid while the unit is on the board, only as part of the steps of playing a card.

Accelerate has no function while on the board.

Multiple instances of Accelerate are redundant.

Accelerate influences the state of the unit entering the Board; it does not enter exhausted and then become ready.

Accelerate will not interact with, or trigger, abilities that are affected by units becoming ready.

Paying the Accelerate cost generates a delayed Replacement Effect. Even if the unit loses the Accelerate keyword during the finalization process, as long as the cost was paid, that unit will still enter ready.

Accelerate, and whether or not a unit has Accelerate, is a characteristic of the Unit and may be checked or referenced by other Game Effects.