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Roadside Assistance

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaWhite mana

The token is the reason to read the text twice. An Aura that pumps and grants lifelink is unremarkable; what this one bundles in is a body that arrives on entry, and a body built to solve the specific logistical problem that Mounts and Vehicles pose. A 1/1 Pilot normally cannot crew a Vehicle of any meaningful size or saddle a Mount that demands real power, so the token cheats its own power upward by two for exactly those two purposes. That clause is doing the load-bearing work: it turns a one-drop-sized token into a functional operator for machinery it could never move at its printed strength. The Aura itself is the payload delivery, tethering to the creature or Vehicle it enchants and leaving a Pilot behind to keep the fleet running even if the enchanted permanent dies. It is a rare piece of design that answers a mechanical dependency (the crew-cost and saddle-cost math that makes small pilots useless) directly on the card rather than asking the deck to solve it elsewhere. Read purely as an Aura it is a modest lifelink pump with the usual two-for-one exposure that Auras carry; read as a token-maker with a purpose-built rider, it exists to make a saddle-and-crew build actually function, which is a narrower and more honest reason to run it than the stat line suggests.

Roadside Assistance (dft)
DFT · #26uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature or Vehicle When this Aura enters, create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Enchanted permanent gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
Legalities

Format Status

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