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PuPu UFO

Artifact Creature — Construct Alien

Flying
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}: Until end of turn, this creature's base power becomes equal to the number of Towns you control.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Final Fantasy
Price
$0.33
EDHREC rank
#3204
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PuPu UFO card art
PuPu UFO is a landfall-triggered vehicle that lets you put a land from your hand onto the battlefield, creating a self-feeding loop whenever you have a land-bounce engine like Retreat to Coralhelm in play. The Wandering Minstrel decks are the primary home, and the combo potential there makes this a near-auto-include in that shell.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Wandering Minstrel

The Wandering Minstrel

43.9% of decks · synergy 0.42

PuPu UFO's land-drop trigger chains directly with The Wandering Minstrel's ability to generate value off each land entering, turning the UFO into a repeatable engine rather than a one-shot effect.

05
Tifa Lockhart

Tifa Lockhart

13.4% of decks · synergy 0.12

Tifa Lockhart benefits from any engine that generates multiple triggers per turn, and PuPu UFO's land-loop potential gives Tifa more combat-relevant activations per rotation.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

PuPu UFO is legal across every major Constructed format but is firmly a Commander card — the combo density required to make its landfall loop payoff worthwhile simply doesn't exist at the speed of Legacy or Modern. In Pioneer and Standard it's too slow and too dependent on supporting pieces to see competitive play. Commander is where the card lives, specifically in landfall and land-bounce decks where the loop with Retreat to Coralhelm and similar engines converts it from a novelty into a genuine win condition.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.33 bulk tier

At $0.33, PuPu UFO is bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or a grab-one-for-the-deck purchase. Bulk rares with narrow combo applications tend to stay in this range unless a breakout deck pushes demand, so treat it as a stable cheap pickup rather than a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.