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Ripclaw Wrangler

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic manaBlack mana

Discard-on-a-body is a strategy black has always wanted to bundle into something that also attacks, and here the delivery mechanism is a Vehicle rather than a creature. That distinction is the whole strategic wrinkle: the enters-the-battlefield discard fires the moment this hits the battlefield, but until you crew it the 4/3 is an inert artifact, immune to sorcery-speed creature removal, invisible to edict effects, and safe from anything that only reads "creature." An opponent holding a spot-removal spell has to weigh whether to point it at the crewing dorks instead, since killing those is the only reliable way to keep the body from swinging. The crew cost of 2 is cheap enough that a single small attacker or a leftover token turns it live, so the disruption tax on the opponent's hand comes stapled to a threat that can dodge the very answers black usually invites. It is a hand-attack piece for decks that want their disruption to keep applying pressure rather than trading down, and the Vehicle chassis is what lets the same permanent do both jobs at once without exposing itself between attacks.

Ripclaw Wrangler (dft)
DFT · #101common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Vehicle enters, each opponent discards a card. Crew 2 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 2 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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