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Capenna Express

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic manaGreen mana

Green does not get to slap a 6/6 onto a permanent creature for four mana, but the Vehicle template quietly rents it that power: an inert hunk of machinery only becomes a creature once something animates it, and the color pie waves that body through where it would object to the same stats worn openly. Crew 3 is the familiar toll, cheap enough once a couple of bodies are down, but the sacrifice line asks for a second look. Feeding it a Treasure animates the truck without tapping anyone, so it can swing the same turn a token arrives, and it can turn itself live even when your whole board is tapped out or dead. That folds a historically color-agnostic artifact concept into the green-Treasure sacrifice shell, converting a resource you were hoarding for ramp or fixing into an ignition switch instead. A Vehicle normally stalls when there is no one left to pilot it; this one keeps a spendable crew member in reserve, so a board that has emptied still fields an attacker. Everything appealing about the card runs through that first ability: banking Treasure and cashing it for a swing on demand, no permission required from anything else in play.

Capenna Express (snc)
SNC · #139common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Sacrifice a Treasure: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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