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Irontread Crusher

Artifact — Vehicle4 generic mana

Six power and six toughness for four generic mana, no creature type, no color requirement, and nothing to lose to a wrath while it sits inert: that statline is the entire draw, and Crew 3 is the rent you pay for it. The trade is the recurring appeal of the early Vehicle template, and this one is its plainest expression: no evasion, no keyword soup, just a large, neutral hull anyone can run regardless of what their manabase looks like. The math keeps it honest. Crew 3 is cheap enough that a single mid-sized attacker can animate the truck, but the Vehicle does nothing on a turn you have no untapped creatures to point at it, which makes it a beater that asks for a board rather than building one. The wrinkle worth naming is the timing window. Because crewing happens at instant speed, you can leave the hull a lifeless artifact through an opponent's sweeper and only commit power when you choose to attack, or crew defensively to block; the cost is that those crewing creatures are tapped out of the combat they enabled. It is an identity-free brick of stats that dodges targeted removal by simply not being a creature most of the time, and that total absence of a color or tribal hook is exactly why it travels: a Vehicle this generic slots into any deck already fielding bodies, and few decks can say it does not fit.

Irontread Crusher (plst)
PLST · #AER-161common
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

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.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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