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Reckless Racer

Creature — Human Pilot

First strike
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Aether Revolt
Price
$0.04
EDHREC rank
#22313
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Reckless Racer card art
Reckless Racer turns every Vehicle you crew into a looting trigger, giving red consistent card filtering it rarely gets for free. The ceiling is high in dedicated Vehicle builds, and Tolarian Kraken shows what happens when you pair this effect with something that cares about discards.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is the natural home for Reckless Racer — Vehicle synergy decks and Boros or Mardu artifact builds want the repeated looting badly enough to justify the slot. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, it competes against faster, more reliable card selection and rarely makes the cut outside niche Vehicle brews. Pioneer is the sweetest spot for constructed play if a Vehicle-centric deck ever coheres in that format, but the current metagame doesn't support it. Reckless Racer is a Commander roleplayer first, a speculative 60-card include second.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1 decks
Reckless RacerTolarian KrakenCitanul Hierophants

Reckless RacerTolarian KrakenCitanul Hierophants

Infinite draw triggers; Infinite rummaging; Infinite self-discard triggers

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Price Context

Current price

$0.04 bulk tier

At $0.04, Reckless Racer is pure bulk — you're picking it up in trade binders or padding out a cart order. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles don't appreciate unless a format-defining deck adopts them, so treat it as a free inclusion rather than a financial decision.

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