Deathless Pilot
Creature — Zombie Pilot
This creature saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater.
: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #18428
Deathless Pilot gives your crew a free recursive body that comes back whenever you crew a Vehicle, turning every attack with a Vehicle into a two-for-one threat. The cost is a two-mana 1/1 with no immediate board impact — you're investing in the long game, not the now.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Deathless Pilot slots cleanly into any Vehicle-tribal or artifact-aggro build, where the recurring 1/1 token generates consistent crew fodder and soft inevitability over a long game. The effect compounds well with commanders like Shorikai, Genesis Engine or Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel that want pilots on board repeatedly. Outside Commander, Deathless Pilot is legal across every major format but rarely sees play — competitive formats demand faster payoffs, and a two-mana do-nothing on entry doesn't clear that bar in Pioneer or Modern. Pauper is the one non-Commander environment where the recursive token economy could be interesting, though the Vehicle density needed to make it work simply isn't there in the format's card pool.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Deathless Pilot is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a common box, not buying singles. That price will hold as long as it stays outside competitive staple territory, which, barring a future Vehicle-tribal breakout, is where it's staying.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.