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Burner Rocket

Artifact — Vehicle1 generic manaRed mana

Flash on a Vehicle is a small conceptual trick that reshapes how the whole card plays. Vehicles are normally a sorcery-speed commitment: you deploy the artifact on your own turn and hope you have a creature to crew it later. This one arrives at instant speed, and its enter trigger fires the moment it lands, handing a creature you already control +2/+0 and trample regardless of whether the Vehicle ever crews up. That reframes it as a combat trick that leaves an artifact body behind. On defense, flash it in during your opponent's attack to hand a blocker +2/+0 and trade up. On offense, flash it during your own combat to push a creature past a chump. Either way, crew 1 is cheap enough that any leftover creature can turn the 3/1 shell into a body afterward. The trample rider is what tips the card toward the beatdown: it converts the +2/+0 into damage that gets through the exact ground stall trample is built to punch open, and it does nothing when you are the one holding back. The design's restraint lives in the fragile 3/1 frame and the single point of crew: both reward a board that is already developed rather than one clawing back from behind, and the trigger is spent whether or not the Vehicle survives to swing.

Burner Rocket (dft)
DFT · #114common
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.12
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this Vehicle enters, target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn. 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
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
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Duel Commander
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Future Standard
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COMPETITIVEBRAWL
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TLR
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