Keldon Battlewagon
Artifact Creature — Juggernaut
Trample
This creature can't block.
When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.
Tap an untapped creature you control: This creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the power of the creature tapped this way.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #27443
Keldon Battlewagon swings as a trampling X/4 — where X equals the total power of creatures you tap to crew it — meaning it can threaten lethal out of nowhere in a board-stalled game. The cost is that crewing eats your attackers, and Unctus, Grand Metatect decks aside, finding a shell that wants to tap creatures for value while also going wide enough to fuel absurd power numbers is a narrow brief.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Keldon Battlewagon occupies a narrow niche: decks that generate wide boards and have a secondary payoff for tapping creatures will actually use it, but most creature-based strategies would rather just attack with those creatures directly. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but will never want it — those formats demand efficiency that a five-mana Vehicle demanding manual crew can't provide. Oathbreaker is the only other competitive-adjacent format where it's legal, and the same logic applies: the payoff doesn't justify the setup against faster threats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Unctus, Grand MetatectThe Watcher in the WaterKeldon Battlewagon
Infinite self-discard triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite looting; Near-infinite tapped creature tokens; Near-infinite power for a creature until end of turn
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Keldon Battlewagon is deep bulk — you'll find it in a common box long before you pay shipping for a single copy. That price is likely a floor rather than a ceiling, given narrow demand, but it makes experimentation in a janky Vehicle or tap-matters build essentially free.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.