Smuggler's Copter
The looting flier that dragged Vehicles out of the "gimmick keyword" bin and onto competitive ban lists. On paper it is a 3/3 flier for that filters your draws every time it enters combat, a rate that would already be strong stapled to a plain creature. The trick is the type line. Left uncrewed it is not a creature at all, so on the turns it sits idle it slides past every point-and-kill removal spell aimed at the board. Crewing changes that: once you tap creatures with total power 1 or more, it becomes an artifact creature until end of turn, exposed to instant-speed removal and burn for the rest of the turn, not merely during the combat step. That is the real cost of turning it on, and it is a smaller one than most removal-dodging threats pay. The loot fires on both attack and block, so it filters draws whether it is pressuring or holding the air, and the discard half doubles as a graveyard feeder for decks that want fuel in the bin. That combination (a body that is only a creature when you choose, card selection welded to combat, and a discard outlet that turns flooded hands into action) is what pushed it past role-player status. The looting clause is the load-bearing piece: it lets aggressive and midrange decks pitch excess lands without going down a card, all on an evasive clock. The rate proved steep enough to warrant removal from competitive play more than once.
