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Nautiloid Ship

Artifact — Vehicle4 generic mana

Graveyard hate rarely comes stapled to a flying reanimator body, and that pairing is the whole gambit here. Most graveyard exile is defense: a one-shot spell, a hosing enchantment, a card you play because someone else is doing something you need to stop. This turns that defensive act into fuel. The exile-on-entry looks like disruption, but the combat trigger rereads that pile as a spellbook: connect for damage and you may promote one of those stolen creatures onto your own side, one per successful attack. The Vehicle framing is what gates the payoff. Crew 3 means the ship does nothing until you tap creatures to animate it, and flying is only worth anything if you can land the hit, so reanimation is contingent on assembling and connecting with an attacker rather than firing on cast. What makes the loop coherent is that both halves point at graveyards: you strip an opponent's bin to shut down their recursion, then spend combat steps drip-feeding the best of what you took onto the battlefield. It is theft that punishes the same resource twice, once by denial and once by conversion, and the pacing (a single body per hit, not a mass reanimation) keeps the payoff a grind rather than a burst. The design leans hard on the flavor of a mind flayer nautiloid abducting bodies to crew its own hull.

Nautiloid Ship (pclb)
PCLB · #328smythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying When this Vehicle enters, exile target player's graveyard. Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may put a creature card exiled with this Vehicle onto the battlefield under your control. Crew 3
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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