Nautiloid Ship
Artifact — Vehicle
Flying
When this Vehicle enters, exile target player's graveyard.
Whenever this Vehicle deals combat damage to a player, you may put a creature card exiled with this Vehicle onto the battlefield under your control.
Crew 3
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- Price
- $16.71
- EDHREC rank
- #3040
Nautiloid Ship enters the battlefield, immediately exiles up to three graveyards worth of cards onto itself, and then threatens to crew into a 5/5 flying vehicle that dumps all of those exiled cards into your graveyard on attack. The graveyard hate is free and immediate; the payoff for crewing it is why Greasefang, Okiba Boss runs it in over half of all lists.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Greasefang, Okiba Boss
Greasefang, Okiba Boss animates Nautiloid Ship on the attack trigger and immediately mines the exiled cards into its own graveyard — stocking the pile for Greasefang to reanimate something on the following turn, all in one vehicle package.
Balthier and Fran
Balthier and Fran reward vehicle play directly, and Nautiloid Ship pulls double duty by hosing opposing graveyards before crewing up as an evasive attacker that dumps fuel into yours.
Kolodin, Triumph Caster
Kolodin, Triumph Caster cares about artifacts entering the battlefield, so Nautiloid Ship triggers that engine on arrival and then crews into a relevant flying threat that advances both the vehicle and graveyard-fill axes.
Miles "Tails" Prower
Miles "Tails" Prower is wired for artifact creatures and vehicles, and Nautiloid Ship gives the deck incidental graveyard hate stapled to a beefy flying attacker that fills the yard on attack.
Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway's pirate-flavored vehicle strategy slots Nautiloid Ship as a thematic fit that also answers graveyard-based strategies, with the attack trigger converting exiled cards into graveyard fodder for the rest of the deck.
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 |
Commander is the natural home for Nautiloid Ship — the 100-card singleton format almost guarantees opponents have graveyard plans worth disrupting, and the exile-on-entry trigger is free value even if the Ship never attacks. In Vintage and Legacy, a five-mana artifact that needs crew 2 to become a beater is too slow for those formats' threat density, and dedicated graveyard hate at lower mana costs crowds it out entirely. Oathbreaker functions similarly to Commander in this respect, so the Ship is playable there if your spellbook leans on vehicles or reanimation synergies. Outside of those formats, Nautiloid Ship is not legal, which makes Commander essentially the only place it matters.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Grafdigger's Cage ($1–2) and Soul-Guide Lantern ($0.50) both answer graveyards at a fraction of the cost, though neither stocks your own yard or threatens as a 5/5 flier. If the vehicle angle is what you're after rather than pure hate, Skysovereign, Consul Flagship offers a more aggressively statted flier with a different payoff, though it lacks the graveyard exile entirely — Nautiloid Ship is currently the only vehicle that staples meaningful graveyard disruption onto a credible body.
Price Context
Current price
$16.71 mid tier
At $16.71, Nautiloid Ship sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, not a throwaway slot. It's a unique effect with no direct vehicle-plus-graveyard-hate parallel, which keeps the floor relatively stable in Commander.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Greasefang, Okiba Boss
- Balthier and Fran
- Kolodin, Triumph Caster
- Miles "Tails" Prower
- Edward Kenway
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.