The Surge
A civilization-altering Helion event changed infrastructure, environments, machines, and biological systems across Earth.
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YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER ERA // ACTIVE
THE WORLD CHANGED. THE MACHINES CHANGED WITH IT.
Animals and machines have fused into living biomechanical racers. They are Motor Mutants.
BE THERE AT THE BEGINNING.
YEAR ZERO First public chapter
03 / 07 Factions active
ONE WORLD Play · Read · Watch · Build
Home hero artwork.
FIELD IDENTIFICATION // MOTOR MUTANT
NOT A VEHICLE.
NOT AN ANIMAL.
SOMETHING NEW.
A Motor Mutant is a living biomechanical racing organism. Machine architecture forms the structural skeleton. Creature anatomy, instinct, and movement behavior shape how that system moves through the world.
CREATURE INSTINCT×MACHINE ARCHITECTURE→LIVING MOVEMENT
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GARAGE GUILD ORIENTATION // FIRST QUESTIONS
THE WORLD DIDN’T CHANGE BY ACCIDENT.
Begin with the event that changed the world—and the phenomenon still shaping what came after.
Helion
Helion is the adaptive energy phenomenon behind mutation, Resonance, Ignition, and instability.
Investigate HelionWHY WE RACE // MOVEMENT WITH PURPOSE
EVERY RACE HAS THREE COMPETITORS.
Motor Mutants race through unstable Helion routes to resolve problems before instability spreads.
Explore the Tracks
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CHOOSE YOUR MUTANT
Every fusion solves movement differently.
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ENTER THE TRACK
Terrain and environment change the problem.
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03
TAKE YOUR LINE
Position and movement create opportunity.
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BUILD PRESSURE
Commit, recover, and manage the system.
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GAIN RESONANCE
Alignment improves how the system responds.
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TRIGGER IGNITION
Peak output must be earned and controlled.
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RESOLVE THE OBJECTIVE
Stabilize. Intercept. Access. Contain.
YOU.YOUR RIVALS.THE ENVIRONMENT.
Tracks are not scenery. Tracks are problems.
THE GARAGE GUILD // YOUR DOORWAY INTO THE CHANGED WORLD
STUDY THE MUTANTS.
UNDERSTAND THE TRACKS.
STABILIZE THE WORLD.
The Garage Guild studies the changed world, protects Motor Mutants, maps unstable routes, and solves Helion problems through engineering and collaboration.
After The Surge, the Guild began mapping unstable corridors, studying Helion, documenting Mutation Moments, classifying Motor Mutants, and training racers to understand the systems they enter. The Guild does not reduce Motor Mutants to equipment. It learns how to work with them.
01OBSERVERDiscover the world.
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02RECRUITEnter Guild orientation.
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03RACER / ENGINEERRead the system.
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Y0FOUNDERBe there at the beginning.
MUTANT DOSSIERS
TRACK MAPS
HELION SCIENCE
FIELD REPORTS
RESTRICTED ARCHIVES
SEVEN LINEAGES // THREE ACTIVE IN YEAR ZERO
SEVEN WAYS TO MOVE.
THREE WAYS TO BEGIN.
A faction is not simply a team. It is a philosophy: a distinct way of solving the race, managing pressure, expressing Helion, and moving through the changed world. Blaze, Aero, and Terra enter first. Four more lineages remain outside the Founder release.
Explore All Seven Factions
FOUNDER ACTIVE
YEAR ZERO
01
Blaze
CREATE PRESSURE.
Explosive pressure, burst momentum, and decisive commitment.
FOUNDER DECK
Blaze
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FOUNDER ACTIVE
YEAR ZERO
02
Aero
CONTROL THE RACE.
Position, flow, passing, timing, and tempo.
FOUNDER DECK
Aero
Explore Faction
FOUNDER ACTIVE
YEAR ZERO
03
Terra
HOLD YOUR GROUND.
Stability, grip, control, resilience, and structural advantage.
FOUNDER DECK
Terra
Explore Faction
FOUNDER RELEASE // BLAZE · AERO · TERRA
FOUR LINEAGES REMAIN BEYOND YEAR ZERO.
Volt · Aqua · Bio · Mech
FOUNDER MUTANTS // FIRST GENERATION
MEET THE MOTOR MUTANTS.
Machine engineering. Animal instinct. One living system. Every fusion has a different relationship with movement, terrain, pressure, and the racer beside it.
Explore All Mutants
Blaze
B001
Gorilla
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Monster Truck
MOTOR MUTANT
NitroKong
Gorilla × Monster Truck
A monster-truck gorilla built around raw force, mass, and explosive pressure.
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Aero
A001
Peregrine Falcon
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Le Mans Hypercar Prototype
MOTOR MUTANT
SkyPiercer
Peregrine Falcon × Le Mans Hypercar Prototype
A peregrine-hypercar fusion built around velocity, precision, and high-speed positional control.
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Terra
T001
Rhinoceros
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6×6 Extreme Recovery Hauler
MOTOR MUTANT
GrumbleTank
Rhinoceros × 6×6 Extreme Recovery Hauler
An immense ground-control Mutant built around traction, structural strength, recovery force, and unshakable resolve.
View Mutant FileTHE GAME // THE MOTOR GENESIS™
THIS ISN’T JUST
A COLLECTION.
IT’S A RACING GAME.
Build your roster. Tune your Mutants. Play Actions. Install Mods. Read the Track. Manage pressure. Build Resonance. Trigger Ignition.
MOTOR MUTANTSTHE WORLD. THE RACERS. THE FACTIONS.
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THE MOTOR GENESIS™THE TRADING CARD GAME SYSTEM.
INSIDE EACH FOUNDER DECK12 MUTANTS.
12 MUTANTS.
DIFFERENT TENDENCIES.
ONE RACING ROSTER.
Every Faction Deck begins with twelve Motor Mutants supported by Actions, Mods, Ignitions, and Recoveries. The Garage Guild classifies their recurring natural competitive tendencies as Archetypes.
FACTIONHOW THEY RACE×ARCHETYPEHOW THEY NATURALLY RESPOND
UNDERSTAND THE DECK
CHOOSE MUTANTS→ENTER TRACK→PLAY ACTIONS→INSTALL MODS→BUILD PRESSURE→IGNITE
YEAR ZERO // FOUNDER'S EDITION
OWN THE BEGINNING.
ONLY 1,000 FOUNDER’S EDITIONS WILL EXIST.
ONE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION RUN // NO SECOND FOUNDER RUN
One complete Year Zero collection containing three 40-card Founder decks—120 deck cards total— the first Tracks, the Founder Field Guide, and Year Zero artifacts. Featuring The Motor Genesis™.
You are not simply choosing a deck. You are choosing one of the first three ways into the world.
MM // Y0FIRST EDITION
1,000
FOUNDER’S EDITIONS
03
FOUNDER FACTIONS
Y0
YEAR ZERO
01
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION RUN
YEAR ZERO // ONE COMPLETE COLLECTION
ONE BOX. EVERYTHING SHOWN BELOW IS PART OF THE FOUNDER’S EDITION.
FOUNDER BOX · BLAZE · AERO · TERRA · FIELD GUIDE · TRACKS & COMPONENTS
YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Motor Mutants Founder Box
The Year Zero Founder box and primary physical entry point into the Motor Mutants Founder's Edition.
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YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Blaze Founder Deck
The Founder-era Blaze deck built around explosive pressure and burst momentum.
1 Mutant
Explore
YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Aero Founder Deck
The Founder-era Aero deck built around position, flow, passing, and tempo.
1 Mutant
Explore
YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Terra Founder Deck
The Founder-era Terra deck built around stability, grip, control, and resilience.
1 Mutant
Explore
YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Founder Field Guide
The Year Zero field guide to Motor Mutants lore, factions, Mutants, tracks, the Garage Guild, and the Founder era.
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MM // Y0 // 06
FOUNDER COMPONENT
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YEAR ZERO
FOUNDER
Founder Tracks & Components
The Founder-era race tracks and physical components used to bring the first Motor Mutants races to the table.
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YEAR ZERO // FOUNDER ALLOCATION
1,000 BOXES.
1,000 BOXES.
1,000 FOUNDERS.
ONE YEAR ZERO.
There will not be a second Founder production run.
LIMITED TO 1,000
LIVE ALLOCATION REPORTING PENDING
Buy the Founder’s Edition
ONE WORLD // MANY WAYS IN
PLAY. READ. WATCH.
BUILD. COLLECT. DISCOVER.
Motor Mutants is being built as a connected story world—not a single product line. The same Mutants, Tracks, mysteries, engineering systems, and Garage Guild records can be experienced in different ways.
THE MOTOR GENESIS™
The Motor Mutants trading card game experience: build your garage, read the Track, manage pressure, and solve the race strategically.
TRADING CARD GAME // TABLETOP RACINGBOOKS
Stories, Founder Field Guides, archive records, mysteries, and adventures from the changed world.
PUBLISHINGANIMATION
See living biomechanical racers, Garage Guild missions, Tracks, Resonance, and world mysteries come alive in motion.
SCREEN STORIESGAMES & TOYS
Physical and interactive play that brings Mutants, racing, engineering, and the Garage Guild world off the page.
GAMES & TOYS // THE MOTOR GENESIS™GARAGE GUILD DIGITAL
Mutant dossiers, Track maps, archive files, field reports, discoveries, and interactive world systems.
DIGITAL WORLD LAYERLEARNING
Engineering, systems thinking, literacy, mathematics, strategy, design, and collaboration discovered through play.
GARAGE GUILD LEARNING
ONE CANONICAL WORLD.
Different entry points. Different experiences. The same Motor Mutants universe.
THE SYSTEM UNDER THE STORY
BUILT FOR PLAY.
BUILT FOR THINKING.
The fantasy is extraordinary. The thinking underneath it is real. Every race asks players to observe a system, make a plan, manage tradeoffs, respond to change, and reflect on what happened.
ENERGY·FORCE·MOTION·SYSTEMS·STRATEGY·ADAPTATION
ENERGY · FORCE · MOTION
Acceleration, traction, stability, terrain, load, and energy become visible through the race.
SYSTEMS · TRADEOFFS · DESIGN
Every creature-platform fusion and every Track creates a different engineering problem to understand.
PROBABILITY · SEQUENCING · OPTIMIZATION
Players compare outcomes, manage resources, plan sequences, and decide when commitment is worth the risk.
READ · INFER · INVESTIGATE
Dossiers, diagrams, Track information, field notes, and archive mysteries reward informational reading and inference.
OBSERVE · PREDICT · ADAPT
The Track changes. Rivals change. Effective racers revise the model instead of repeating the same answer.
TEAMWORK · PATIENCE · REFLECTION
Cooperation, recovery, persistence, growth mindset, and learning after failure are embedded in the experience.
GAMEPLAY IS ESSENTIAL IN THE AGE OF AI.
Motor Mutants creates reasons to think, build, read, collaborate, experiment, communicate, and play together.
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GARAGE GUILD ARCHIVES // ACCESS LIMITED
SOME QUESTIONS HAVE ANSWERS.
OTHERS HAVE ONLY FILE NUMBERS.
Not every Garage Guild record is available during Founder orientation. Some records remain sealed, redacted, incomplete—or challenge what the Guild thought it understood.
Access the ArchivesYEAR ZERO // FOUNDER ERA
YOU WERE HERE AT YEAR ZERO.
Enter the Garage Guild. Choose your Founder faction. Own the first physical chapter of the Motor Mutants world.
BE THERE AT THE BEGINNING.
Buy the Founder’s Edition