Carrion Cruiser
Artifact — Vehicle
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.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #15161
Carrion Cruiser lands as a 4/3 flying vehicle for four mana that crews for two — a reasonable body on a reasonable rate, but nothing that demands a slot on its own merits. The reason to run it is Greasefang, Okiba Boss: Greasefang crews it for free at combat and swings for four in the air the turn it hits the graveyard.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Greasefang, Okiba Boss
Greasefang, Okiba Boss puts Carrion Cruiser directly into play from the graveyard at the start of combat, making the Cruiser one of the most efficient reanimation targets in the deck — four power flying for zero additional mana on the turn it matters.
Aatchik, Emerald Radian
Aatchik, Emerald Radian's energy and counter synergies pair with Carrion Cruiser as an evasive threat that comes down early and swings overhead while the engine assembles.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Carrion Cruiser is a Greasefang, Okiba Boss card first and a standalone vehicle second — its 17% inclusion rate in that archetype tells the whole story. Outside of that specific shell, a vanilla 4/3 flyer for four with a crew cost isn't competing for space in most 99s. In constructed formats like Standard, Pioneer, and Modern, Carrion Cruiser is fringe at best; aggressive vehicle decks generally want cheaper crew costs or higher power ceilings, and four mana is a steep ask when Esper Sentinel and Skysovereign, Consul Flagship exist on the same curve. Pauper is the one format where it's outright illegal, so that conversation ends there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Carrion Cruiser is deep bulk — you're picking it up as a throw-in or out of a commons box, not tracking it down as a meaningful purchase. Bulk vehicles with narrow applications don't trend upward, so treat this as a zero-cost slot-filler for the Greasefang builds that want it and nothing more.
Explore
Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.