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Rover Blades

Artifact — Equipment Vehicle3 generic mana

Two lines of the same keyword stacked on one permanent is the tell: this is a Vehicle that carries double strike as its own creature and hands double strike to whatever it equips. Doubling the doubler is the conceit. Crew it and you have a 2/2 that swings for four; attach it to something bigger and that creature hits twice instead. The equip cost of 4 generic mana is the restraint on the whole design, since doubling a large attacker's damage tends to end games on the spot; the card asks for real mana before it pays out. The genuinely interesting piece is the type line. An Equipment that is also a Vehicle wants two contradictory things at once: Equipment need a host, Vehicles want to be crewed and attack alone. This one picks a role each turn. That is also where the crew clause's reminder text does its quiet work: "Creatures can't be attached to other permanents" means the moment you crew the Vehicle and it becomes a creature itself, it drops off whatever it was attached to. It cannot both be an attacking creature and be equipped to another attacker; you commit it to one job at a time. The strategic question is narrow and repeats every combat step: which of your creatures, the Vehicle included, most wants to strike twice this turn.

Rover Blades (dft)
DFT · #241uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Double strike Equipped creature has double strike. Equip 4 generic mana 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. Creatures can't be attached to other permanents.)
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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