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Tune Up

Sorcery3 generic manaWhite mana

White reanimation almost never reaches into the artifact half of the graveyard: the color's recursion tradition buys back creatures and enchantments, not metal. That misdirection is the first oddity here, and the Vehicle rider is what does the interesting work. Vehicles normally arrive as noncreature artifacts that sit inert until crewed, taxing the attack step by asking you to tap creatures you would rather be swinging. Returning one this way skips the whole ritual: the Vehicle comes back already animated, a creature without any crew paid. Summoning sickness still applies, so it cannot attack the turn it returns without haste, but it can block right away, and it stands as a body you never had to divert other creatures to activate. Against a plain artifact the effect flattens out to a straight return to play, and the sorcery timing plus the four-mana price frame it as a rebuild spell rather than an ambush: you cast it to reset a board, not to spring one at instant speed. It belongs to a small lineage of effects that recur the graveyard's artifacts rather than its creatures, and the animated-Vehicle clause is the wrinkle that lifts it above generic value. The reward goes to any board built on artifact bodies, handing it a way to make its best piece stick around after removal has done its work.

Tune Up (dft)
DFT · #417uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.21
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

Return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If it's a Vehicle, it becomes an artifact creature.
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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