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Thundering Broodwagon

Artifact — Vehicle2 generic manaBlack manaBlack manaGreen manaGreen mana

A six-mana Vehicle that stapled a Ravenous Chupacabra-style destroy trigger to a 6/5 body would be a fine top-end and a stone-dead draw the turn you needed a spell rather than a threat. The two-mana cycling cost is the release valve: when the crewed beater is too slow or the target is too big to catch (the destroy clause tops out at mana value four or less), you pitch it for a card and move on. That double-duty is the design's core, resolving on a single card the tension a costly midrange payoff usually can't. The removal is pointedly narrow by that same cap: four or less clears mana dorks, aggressive early drops, and small planeswalkers, but leaves the six- and seven-drops it competes against for the body to handle. Menace and reach then point the 6/5 in both directions, pressuring on the ground and swatting the flyers a green-black deck otherwise has trouble blocking. Crew 3 is the final term in the balance, demanding a board commitment to animate it, which happens to be the same board state where you'd rather have the small creatures swinging anyway. Nothing here is flashy; the whole build is engineered so the card always has a job, whether the game wants a threat, an answer, or just a fresh card off the top.

Thundering Broodwagon (dft)
DFT · #225uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

Menace, reach When this Vehicle enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value 4 or less. Crew 3 Cycling 2 generic mana (2 generic mana, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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
N/A
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