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Magmatic Galleon

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Removal stapled to a body has been a red staple forever, but this Vehicle rewrites the arithmetic of overkill. The enter trigger points five damage at an opposing creature, and the second ability turns any overshoot into currency: whenever your opponents' creatures take excess noncombat damage, you bank a Treasure. Damage-based removal has always wasted its surplus (a five-point burn on a 2/2 threw three points into the void), and this design flips that waste into ramp. The interaction it cares about is spillover: point the entry trigger at a small creature, or fire off any of red's plentiful noncombat burn, and the leftover damage that used to evaporate now pays you back. That reframes how you evaluate every damage spell alongside it, since the "wrong" target (a big spell into a small body) becomes the profitable line rather than the tempo loss. Crew 2 tethers the 5/5 to a creature you already have down rather than sending it in free, so the Treasure engine and the beater are two halves of the same investment. It is a rare piece of design that makes red's oldest flaw, its inability to aim damage efficiently, into the mechanism the card runs on.

Magmatic Galleon (plci)
PLCI · #157prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.45
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Vehicle enters, it deals 5 damage to target creature an opponent controls. Whenever one or more creatures your opponents control are dealt excess noncombat damage, create a Treasure token. Crew 2
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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