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Silent Submersible

Artifact — VehicleBlue manaBlue mana

The design problem with card-advantage Vehicles is that a Vehicle already dodges sorcery-speed removal by sitting inert on the turns you leave it uncrewed, so bolting a draw trigger onto that resilience risks a value engine that never turns off. The answer here is the crew cost pulling double duty: Crew 2 is nearly free, but the creatures you tap to send the Submersible in cannot also swing, and a 2/3 body still has to connect through blockers before it hands you anything. That connection is the whole tension. Against an open board it is Curiosity attached to a mobile threat you can retract on defense; against a real wall it is a 2/3 that trades down and draws nothing. The trigger also fires on combat damage to planeswalkers, which quietly makes it a policing piece as much as a value engine: it wants to point at the thing that cannot block, and in an era when planeswalkers crowded the battlefield, an attacker that both refilled your hand and pressured them was answering a specific board state. It never tried to be the loudest blue two-drop of its lineage; it is a small, honest attempt to give blue a proactive card-draw creature that earns each card in combat rather than off a static trigger, the way Ophidian did the same job in an older form.

Silent Submersible (war)
WAR · #66rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $0.32
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw 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
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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