The Best Legendary Vehicles To Use As Your MTG Commander After Edge of Eternities
Edge of Eternities kicks off this week (in prerelease at least), and while it’s yet another Magic: The Gathering set, it’s also shaking things up in the most popular format: Commander.
With the new set, Legendary vehicles (and the Spacecraft within Edge of Eternities) will be able to be used as your Commander, meaning there are almost two dozen Legendary Vehicles you can opt to lead your deck.
Here are the ones you should consider, along with some key points to keep in mind.
The Seriema
Wizards revealed The Seriema first when showing off Edge of Eternities cards, and it’s perhaps unsurprising as it looks like a pretty potent card for White decks.
The Seriema can find a legendary creature and put it in your hand each time it arrives, but it can give tapped legendary creatures you control Indestructible. It costs 7 to Station and is a 5/5 in its own right (with Flying).
Esika’s Chariot
One for the cat lovers, Esika’s Chariot is a four-cost 4/4 that requires 4 to Crew, but can create tokens when it arrives, and then copy additional tokens.
Tie it in with Doubling Season and your go-wide strategy can be, uh, wider than ever, creating four tokens when it enters, and then duplicating more when it attacks. More kitties, more chaos.
Entropic Battlecruiser
Oh boy, where to start? Stick a single creature in the Entropic Battlecruiser and your foes will be pinged for 3 life when discarding, but keep ramping up the Station and you’ll give it a huge health pool, flying, deathtouch, and force discards all around the table.
Will your opponents take it out before it gets there? Potentially, but we reckon it’s worth it for those people who love to mess with their opponents’ hands.
Exploration Broodship
If you’ve been looking for a fresh Landfall Commander, this could be it. The Exploration Broodship costs a single green mana, and it doesn’t take long to Station 3 and allow for bonus land each turn.
You can then sacrifice that land to bring back some big, powerful cards from your graveyard. It’s found in the World Shaper Commander Deck, if you’re picking that one up.
RMS Titanic
As soon as the rules change was announced, the RMS Titanic from the Doctor Who set saw a lot of love, and it’s understandable for what could be a pretty fun (if not entirely functional) Commander.
It’s a 7/1 with a relatively low crew cost, and only costs four mana to bring into play. It’ll also act as a Treasure token engine, has flying and trample. We’d imagine the play here will be buffing it as much as possible to then make a whole host of tokens, which you can then use to bring it back into play with the Commander tax.
The Last Ride
Another one that could be great fun as a literal last-hurrah, this one-mana black Legendary Vehicle from Aetherdrift (that set feels a while ago, right?) could have meme potential.
The Last Ride is strongest the closer you are to death, and being able to roll it out from your Command zone to hit an opponent for big numbers is the kind of chaos we’re here for.
The Indomitable
Fancy building a Pirate deck? Here’s your ideal ghost ship to set sail with. The Indomitable is a 6/6, four-cost Legendary Artifact with Trample and card draw.
It also crews with three, but the real bonus is you can pull it from the graveyard if you have enough pirates attacking. Doing so lets you dodge that Commander tax and bring in those card draw opportunities.
Jackdaw
More pirates? Sure, Assassin’s Creed fans, we’ve got you. The Jackdaw is a 4/4 with Crew 3 and a 3 mana cost, meaning it’s pretty easy to get up and running.
It then gives you the option of discarding your hand and redrawing based on artifact numbers, meaning you can slot it into an Artifact-focused deck and get some obscene card draw.
Weatherlight Compleated
If you’re really keen on a colorless deck (you Eldrazi sickos, we see you), then the Weatherlight Compleated is well worth a look. A 5/5 with flying that costs two colorless is nifty in itself, but it also draws when cards die.
It doesn’t ‘Crew’ in the traditional sense, but if you’re throwing a few tokens at a foe you could power it up (and draw/scry) pretty swiftly.
Lumen-Class Frigate
A new Edge of Eternities option, the Lumen-Class Frigate has a pair of Station abilities. The first lets you power up your creatures, making it easier to hit the second.
It could be particularly fun with the Tidus deck from the Final Fantasy set as you swap your counters around to get a flying, lifelink spaceship powered up in various ways.
What to Consider When Picking Your Commander
As with any Commander, picking a Legendary Vehicle that works into your desired playstyle is important, but many of the vehicles available are colorless.
Since you can only pick cards within your Commander’s color identity for your deck, that means you’d be limited to colorless cards if you opted for one of those. That may suit you just fine, but it’s worth mentioning.
Magic: The Gathering’s Spacecraft explained
Spacecraft make their debut in Edge of Eternities as a new Artifact Subtype. The idea is that your ship uses its ‘Station’ ability to pick up crew. Once you reach the required number of charge counters (calculated from the power of the cards you use to ‘Station’), your ship becomes an Artifact Creature.
The Wurmwall Sweeper, for example, needs to be crewed by four or more, so using ‘Station’ to put a couple of 2/2s in there would work nicely.
Wizards puts it best in its mechanics blog: “If Wurmwall Sweeper has three charge counters on it, it’s not a creature and it doesn’t have flying. Once it gets its fourth charge counter, it becomes a 2/2 artifact creature with flying.”
Where to Buy Magic: The Gathering’s Edge of Eternities Set
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