Curio Vendor

A vanilla 2/1 is filler almost by definition, so the interesting question is what job it was scoped for, and this Vedalken answers precisely: it was built to crew. In an artifact-matters environment full of Vehicles, the load-bearing stat on a creature is not toughness or keywords but power, because power is the currency that taps to bring an inert hull online. Two power clears the most common crew thresholds, so a body that does nothing on offense becomes the pilot that turns a Vehicle into a creature for an attack or block. That is the entire design intent: not a payoff, but cheap, expendable infrastructure an artifact-aggro plan needs to make its expensive hulls move. The Vedalken type and the curio-peddler flavor gesture at inventor-plane tinkerers, but mechanically this is a power-stat delivery system, sized for a task rather than for combat. Strip away the context that rewards crewing and the card shrinks back to what the stat line shows: a creature that trades down to most things and threatens nothing on its own, which measures exactly how narrowly it was scoped.