Kitsune Ace

Vehicles carry a structural cost that most decks quietly eat: they need a creature to tap for crew, and that crewer then sits out of the combat it just enabled. This fox answers both halves of that problem in a single body. Choose the untap mode and the Pilot pays its own crew tax back, freeing the tapped crewer to block or to crew a second Vehicle after combat; choose first strike and the attacking Vehicle wins damage races it would otherwise trade in. The design sits on a real tension in the crew mechanic, which is that the resource you spend to attack (a creature's tap) is exactly the resource you want to keep for defense. Making both effects trigger off any Vehicle attacking, rather than off the act of crewing, is the sharp part: it rewards a board with multiple Vehicles rather than one big one, since each attacker hands you another choice. Note the timing: because attackers are declared simultaneously, the untap resolves too late to add crewers to that same attack, so this is an engine for freeing up blockers and setting up the next turn, not for chaining an entire fleet into one combat. The modest 2/2 frame is deliberate, keeping a repeatable untap ability off a body large enough to abuse it. As written, it supports a Vehicle-forward board, turning crew from a one-time expenditure into a resource you spend and get back.