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Cryptcaller Chariot

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic manaBlack mana

Discard has always been a cost that decks pay for something else: filtering to find the right card, fueling a graveyard, ditching a dead land. This turns that cost into a rate. Every card you discard, whatever the reason, becomes a 2/2 Zombie, so the friction of looting or rummaging pays a dividend it never used to. That reframes a whole category of cheap draw-and-discard effects: they stop being pure card-quality tools and start being token generators, and the payoff scales with how greedy your discard engine is. The tokens arriving tapped is the restriction that keeps the trigger from being a free army: they cannot block the turn they appear, so the card wants an aggressive shell that is already discarding on its own terms rather than a control deck cashing in end-step. On its own it is still a menace-carrying body that any two power can crew, which matters because the Vehicle shell means it dodges most sorcery-speed removal while it sits inert. What makes it more than a value engine is the axis it rewards: it asks you to treat discard not as a tax but as a resource, and builds the density of cheap madness-adjacent and rummage effects into a threat count.

Cryptcaller Chariot (dft)
DFT · #80rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.43
Foil: $0.43
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace Whenever you discard one or more cards, create that many tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Crew 2
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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