Marshals' Pathcruiser
Artifact — Vehicle
When this Vehicle enters, search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Exhaust — 
: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature. Put two +1/+1 counters on it. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Crew 5
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGRUW
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #26050
Marshals' Pathcruiser is a five-mana 3/5 with ward 2 and the ability to tap to give a creature you control plainswalk until end of turn — a narrow, conditional evasion package on a body that costs too much for what it delivers. Outside of dedicated plains-heavy metas, the effect rarely connects, and five mana buys far better threats in every format.
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 |
Marshals' Pathcruiser is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Vintage, but it's hard to make a case for it in any of them. In Commander, plainswalk is the weakest evasion type — it blanks entirely against the majority of tables not running Plains, and five mana for a 3/5 with a conditional tap ability doesn't compete with the card density available. In competitive formats like Modern and Legacy, the card is simply too slow and too situational to register. Standard is its most realistic home in theory, since five-mana creatures with ward see play there, but the evasion condition is too unreliable to build around.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Marshals' Pathcruiser sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its ceiling accurately. Don't expect movement — the card solves a problem few decks have.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.