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Detention Chariot

Artifact — Vehicle4 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

White's temporary-exile removal has always lived on permanents that can be answered on their own terms: an enchantment like Banishing Light, a creature like Fiend Hunter, each of which hands the exiled thing back the moment the answer dies. Bolting that effect onto a Vehicle rewires the exchange. The exile fires as the Vehicle enters, but a Vehicle sits inert until crewed, so the creature removal a defender holds up against a threatening body does nothing while it idles: to reclaim what was lost, an opponent has to reach for artifact destruction rather than the spells already in hand. That gap between "answer the permanent" and "answer the thing doing the exiling" is the design lever the whole card turns on. The 6/6 that arrives once you tap three power's worth of creatures is closing speed layered atop the removal, and cycling for a single white gives it a floor: when the board is empty and there is nothing worth exiling, it converts to a card instead of stranding a six-drop. It targets an artifact or a creature, so the same effect that neutralizes a bomb can also strip an opposing engine. The cost is genuine. Six mana for something that returns its exile the instant it dies asks you to protect it, and living as an artifact rather than a creature cuts both ways: it slips past creature removal but walks straight into anything that answers artifacts.

Detention Chariot (dft)
DFT · #294uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Vehicle enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until this Vehicle leaves the battlefield. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.) Cycling White mana (White mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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
N/A
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