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Tangle Tumbler

Artifact — Vehicle3 generic mana

The animation cost is where this design quietly diverges from every other Vehicle. Rather than a Crew keyword measured in total power, it wants two untapped tokens tapped: a resource decks either flood the board with or never generate at all, and it does not care what kind of token they are. Treasures, Clues, Foods, or a swarm of 1/1s all pay the price equally, which means it slots into any deck built to spit out incidental artifacts just as comfortably as a go-wide creature strategy. That reframes the animation cost from a combat tax into a payoff for engines that produce spare permanents as a byproduct. Until you have the tokens to turn it on, it still earns its slot as a counter sink, though that mode asks for a real tradeoff: the ability taps the Vehicle itself, so a turn spent growing a creature is a turn it cannot be animated to attack. Vigilance is the piece that keeps the two modes from clobbering each other. Once the tokens are online, animation costs no card, and because the crewing bodies are tapped tokens rather than your real creatures, you sidestep the usual Vehicle bind where the attackers you spend are the blockers you wanted back. The animated 6/6 can then swing and stay untapped to guard on the crackback. It is a token-payoff wearing an artifact's shell, tuned for decks that treat spare permanents as fuel rather than as bodies.

Tangle Tumbler (blb)
BLB · #250uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance 3 generic mana, Tap: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Tap two untapped tokens you control: 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
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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