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Cloudspire Captain

Creature — Human Pilot2 generic manaWhite mana

The two-line design here is doing more than the tribal anthem suggests. The +1/+1 for Mounts and Vehicles is the obvious payoff, but the second line is the interesting engineering: by treating this Human's power as two greater for the purposes of saddling and crewing, it lets a modest 2/3 body single-handedly turn on Vehicles and Mounts that would normally demand a much heavier commitment. That solves the recurring friction of the whole mechanic, which is that a Vehicle costed for a big crew number sits inert until you have enough board presence to animate it, and a Mount asks you to expend a creature's combat step saddling it. This card lets one small body meet those requirements alone, and because the anthem stacks with the vehicle it just crewed, the thing it turns on also gets bigger. It is a lord and a crew engine folded into the same three-drop, which is the kind of dual-purpose framing that keeps an artifact-and-Mount deck from stalling out when it draws the payoffs but not the enablers. The restraint is in the body: a 2/3 that gives everything else the buff but keeps almost none of it, so the card wants a battlefield to point its abilities at rather than a fight of its own.

Cloudspire Captain (dft)
DFT · #9uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Mounts and Vehicles you control get +1/+1. This creature saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater.
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
More formats
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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