Roadside Assistance
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature or Vehicle
When this Aura enters, create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater."
Enchanted permanent gets +1/+1 and has lifelink.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #15281
Roadside Assistance returns a creature from your graveyard to the battlefield — the impact is immediate and board-relevant. Kolodin, Triumph Caster turns that reanimation trigger into additional value, making this a clean two-mana payoff in the right shell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kolodin, Triumph Caster
Kolodin, Triumph Caster cares about spells that affect creatures, and Roadside Assistance feeds that engine directly — reanimating a creature while triggering Kolodin's ability is the exact two-for-one this deck wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Roadside Assistance is a role-player, not a headliner — it fits decks that want cheap reanimation redundancy rather than as a first-line engine. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, two mana for a single creature return is too slow and too narrow unless it's stapled to a payoff that makes the rate acceptable. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient reanimation, so Roadside Assistance won't see play there outside of highly specific brews. Standard is where it has the most room to breathe, since the competition at two mana is weaker and graveyard recursion is contextually powerful depending on the meta.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Roadside Assistance is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the effect. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold value, so pick it up as a four-of without hesitation and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Kolodin, Triumph Caster
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.