Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
More Than Meets the Eye 
(You may cast this card converted for .)
Whenever Prowl attacks, exile up to one other target tapped creature or Vehicle. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it.
Whenever a player plays a card exiled with Prowl, you draw a card and convert Prowl.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Transformers
- Price
- $1.47
- EDHREC rank
- #10592
Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle is a double-sided threat: a 2/3 that converts into a 4/5 Vehicle with trample and the ability to crew itself, all stapled onto a card that rewards you for going wide with artifact creatures. The cost is real — four mana for the front face is a fair rate, not a bargain — but the back side's self-crewing clause makes Optimus Prime, Hero decks reach for it immediately.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Optimus Prime, Hero
Optimus Prime, Hero flips creatures into Vehicles as a core mechanic, and Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle plays both sides of that game — it enters as a creature Optimus Prime can convert, and once it becomes Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle it crews itself, meaning it never sits as a dead Vehicle waiting for a pilot.
Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Tetzin, Gnome Champion rewards artifact synergies and incremental board presence, and Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle supplies both — the front face is an artifact creature that triggers artifact-matters payoffs, and the Vehicle back gives Tetzin, Gnome Champion a resilient attacker that doesn't need additional bodies to crew.
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 where Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle earns its keep — artifact-creature and Vehicles synergies are plentiful, and the self-crewing back side is a meaningful edge in a format where overextending into a board wipe is a constant threat. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; neither format has room for a four-mana 2/3 that takes another turn to flip, regardless of what it becomes. Oathbreaker shares Commander's singleton, multiplayer texture, so the same artifact-synergy shells that want it there want it here too.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.47 cheap tier
At $1.47, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle sits in budget territory — low enough to slot in without hesitation, high enough that it's not bulk. Demand is narrow but consistent: it lives almost entirely in Optimus Prime, Hero builds, so the price is stable rather than poised to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Optimus Prime, Hero
- Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.