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Fire Nation Warship

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic mana

Most crewable Vehicles ask you to weigh the tap cost against the payoff and hope the thing survives combat; this one hedges the second half of that bet. A 4/4 with reach for three is already a fine rate on the board, blocking fliers a ground creature cannot and swinging for real damage once you tap two power to animate it. The wrinkle is what happens when it goes down: the death trigger turns a chump block or a removal spell into a Clue, which means the opponent's answer buys them nothing net-positive and buys you a card whenever you can spare the two mana. That reframes the crew decision entirely. Because the Vehicle only becomes a creature (and only becomes vulnerable to creature removal, to combat, to sacrifice-based interaction) on the turn you crew it, the reach and the death-into-Clue clause work as a matched pair: it wants to trade, and it profits from trading. Vehicles historically leaned on the fact that they dodge sorcery-speed removal while parked as noncreature artifacts, treating death as pure downside. Attaching a Clue to the death event inverts that logic, letting the card lean into combat rather than away from it. It is a small design idea executed cleanly: a body that is happy to die, which is a rarer thing among Vehicles than the crew keyword alone suggests.

Fire Nation Warship (tla)
TLA · #256uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.22
Oracle Text

Rules text

Reach When this Vehicle dies, create a Clue token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
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