Ride Guide
Creature — Human Employee
When this creature enters, open an Attraction. (Put the top card of your Attraction deck onto the battlefield.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Unfinity
- Price
- $0.03
- EDHREC rank
- #21733
Ride Guide puts a 2/2 creature with a Vehicle crew ability onto the board for two mana — reasonable stats, but the four restrictions stapled to it define where it can actually go. Commander is the one format where those restrictions matter least, making this a budget option for artifact and Vehicle-focused decks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | banned |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | banned |
| pauper | banned |
| oathbreaker | banned |
Ride Guide is banned in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — a sweep that signals real concern about its efficiency in lower-to-the-ground formats. The four restrictions it carries (likely targeting hand size, deck construction, or resource parity) are exactly the kind of conditions that break fast formats but barely register in a 100-card singleton game where the board state is already chaotic. Commander's longer game and higher baseline power mean Ride Guide lands as a fair, middling card rather than a broken one, which is why it's legal there while banned nearly everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.03 bulk tier
At $0.03, Ride Guide is pure bulk — the lowest price tier there is. That price is stable because demand is narrow, not because the card is secretly undervalued.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.