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Demolition Stomper

Artifact — Vehicle6 generic mana

Crew was pitched as a deferred-cost bargain: instead of paying to keep a creature attacking, you pay once in mana to cast the Vehicle, then borrow attackers you already have to animate it. This is the bargain at its loudest setting. The six mana up front is real, and the crew 5 requirement asks a real question about whether your battlefield can spare five total power, which usually means you need a developed board before the giant ever swings. That tension is the whole gambit: the 10/7 payoff is enormous, but it only arrives after you have built the kind of wide position that might not need a finisher this large to begin with. The evasion clause sharpens the case rather than softening it; refusing blocks from power-2-or-less creatures means the chump-blockers a wide board throws up cannot stop it, so all ten damage connects where a single token or dork would otherwise absorb the hit. The card is least useful on the empty boards where you usually want a big artifact and most useful when you already control a crowd, which inverts the logic of a top-end bomb. It rewards the same wide deck twice: once for crewing it cheaply off bodies on hand, once for slipping it past the small creatures wide decks tend to face. A clean expression of crew's deferred-cost idea taken to its upper bound.

Demolition Stomper (kld)
KLD · #206uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

This Vehicle can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less. Crew 5 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 5 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
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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