Carrion Cruiser — Salvage the Skies
Carrion Cruiser is a compact artifact vehicle that brings graveyard recursion into tight, efficient play. When the Cruiser hits the battlefield it mills two cards and then returns a creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand. That sequence rewards deliberate graveyard setup and gives you tempo on the following turn. The card reads plainly but plays with layered choices; it fits in sacrifice shells, control decks that want value, and any brew that leverages small crew activations.
The art shows a corroded hull and green necrotic vapors which reinforce the card s function as a reclaiming engine. With Crew 1 it is cheap to crew and becomes a 3 2 body that can block or smash through a gap left by opponents. Carrion Cruiser pairs well with self mill and token generators so you can reliably target a creature to recur. Add this near mint copy to your Aetherdrift collection and test how a little recursion changes your matchups.
Card Details:
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Mana Cost – {2}{B}
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Card Type – Artifact — Vehicle
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Subtypes – Vehicle
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Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – When this Vehicle enters, mill two cards. Then return a creature or Vehicle card from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.) Crew 1 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
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Power / Toughness – 3/2