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Air Response Unit

Artifact — Vehicle2 generic manaWhite mana

Crew 1 is the number that changes everything about how this Vehicle plays. A Vehicle's usual tax is that it sits inert until you commit a real body to it, and the crew cost decides how much that commitment stings; a single tap of one power satisfies this one. That means almost any creature you control, a mana dork, a token, a chump-sized one-drop, animates a 3/3 flier that stays untapped for defense. The vigilance is the part that pays off the crew: because most Vehicles turn a creature sideways to attack, crewing usually strips a blocker, but this one crews, swings, and still guards the board. Pair that with flying and you have an evasive attacker that never opens a hole in your own defense the way a normal creature-plus-Vehicle exchange would. The body itself is unremarkable for its cost; the appeal is structural. A Vehicle dodges sorcery-speed removal aimed at creatures until the moment it is crewed, so it survives a sweeper cast on an empty-of-crewers turn and rejoins the attack the next. What the design is reaching for is a white flier that costs the deck almost nothing to keep online: cheap to activate, safe to leave up, and immune to the sorcery-speed edicts and wraths that clear the ground it flies over.

Air Response Unit (dft)
DFT · #1uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.04
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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