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Carrion Cruiser

Artifact — Vehicle2 generic manaBlack mana

Vehicles rarely double as recursion engines, and that is the wrinkle here: the reason to run it is the enters trigger, which mills two and pulls a creature or Vehicle card back to hand. The self-mill is not incidental; it feeds the return clause, so the card stocks its own graveyard and cashes it in the same moment it lands. That collapses the usual gap between putting cards in the yard and having something worth getting back, a two-step most reanimation-adjacent effects leave to a second card. Crew 1 keeps the activation cost trivial, so even a lone one-power creature turns it into an attacker, but the strategic center of gravity is the return, not the beatdown. Because it recurs Vehicles as well as creatures, a graveyard stocked with other crews becomes a renewable resource: mill into a Vehicle, bring one back, repeat as copies accumulate. The 3/2 body is the least interesting thing about it, which is the correct instinct for a design whose job is to grind card advantage out of the graveyard while occasionally swinging. It reads as a support piece: an engine built to feed and loot its own graveyard, content to trade blows only when the board demands it and never asked to carry the game on its stats alone.

Carrion Cruiser (dft)
DFT · #305uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Vehicle enters, mill two cards. Then return a creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) 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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
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Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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