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Haunted Hellride

Artifact — Vehicle1 generic manaBlue manaBlack mana

The attack trigger does two jobs that rarely share a Vehicle, and the second is where the design turns sneaky. The buff makes any attacker a removal threat: +1/+0 and deathtouch means blocking a crewed body trades away the blocker, and if you point the trigger at the Vehicle itself, that 3/3 swings as a 4/3, so the opponent eats four rather than declining to block. But the untap clause is the meaner half. The trigger resolves after crew has been paid and attackers declared, which means the untap lands on a creature that has already spent its turn: the one that tapped to crew, or an attacker that has committed to the swing. Untap the crewer and it is standing again, free to crew a second Vehicle, tap for another effect, or hold back as a blocker on the crack-back. The card hands one of your creatures its resources back the same turn you spent them, and that loop rewards a wide board of small evasive bodies over a single fat one: every attacker wants to be the target, and the deathtouch makes each a two-way threat. Crew 1 keeps the engine cheap to switch on, asking less of the board than a payoff this large usually demands. The check is direction: both halves land on one target and only when you attack, so this wants to lead a swarm forward, not sit back and answer.

Haunted Hellride (dft)
DFT · #325uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you attack, target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Untap it. Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 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
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
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