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The Lunar Whale

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle3 generic manaBlue mana

Card advantage keyed to combat is an old design lever, but attaching it to a Vehicle changes the math. Future Sight granted permanent top-of-library access at the cost of a full permanent slot; here the look is free and always on, while the play permission switches on for any turn the ship has attacked. Note the timing carefully: the ability is not a damage trigger and does not care whether the attack connects. It reads "attacked this turn," so once combat is declared, you have the permission for the rest of your turn regardless of how blocks resolve. The window opens after the attack, not before, which makes sequencing the point of the card: swing first, then spend off the top with the second main phase and everything after. Crew 1 is what makes that cheap to reach: a 3/5 flier that almost any creature can animate, so the attack requirement costs almost nothing and the body is large enough to keep swinging into most ground defenses. The Vehicle framing also matters for survivability, since it is only a creature while crewed and reverts to an artifact between turns, dodging the sorcery-speed creature removal that would otherwise strip a repeatable engine. Very little input (one attacker, one point of crew, a lane for an evasive 3/5) buys an extra card every turn the ship goes in, the kind of low-friction advantage that flying was built to protect.

The Lunar Whale (pfin)
PFIN · #60srare
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Foil: $3.93
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying You may look at the top card of your library any time. As long as The Lunar Whale attacked this turn, you may play the top card of your library. Crew 1
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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