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Ovalchase Dragster

Artifact — Vehicle4 generic mana

Six power with haste for four mana is a rate that has no business existing on a body that can attack the turn it arrives, which is exactly the argument the Vehicle frame was built to make. The 6/1 is the bargain laid bare: a one-toughness frame that dies to any blocker, any ping, any incidental chip, but that only becomes a creature at all when you decide it should. Crew 1 makes that decision nearly free, and that is the real mechanism at work: tap a single expendable body, animate the Dragster, and swing for six trampling. Because crewing can happen whenever you hold priority, the choice is entirely yours: leave it as an inert artifact on the turns you would rather not expose it, and creature removal and combat tricks cannot legally touch it. The vulnerability never vanishes; it gets scheduled. From the moment you crew it until the end of that turn it is a fully exposed creature, open to instant-speed answers, so animating it is a window you open on purpose rather than a permanent liability. That is the whole design compressed: a creature's inherent fragility converted into a fragility you meter out at your own timing. A 6/1 creature is something any opponent can trade with on their terms; a 6/1 Vehicle picks its moment and is otherwise off the target list. Trample keeps it from being chump-blocked into nothing, and haste starts the clock the instant it lands.

Ovalchase Dragster (kld)
KLD · #225uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.69
Oracle Text

Rules text

Trample, haste 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
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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