Smoldering Stagecoach
Artifact — Vehicle
Smoldering Stagecoach's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Whenever this Vehicle attacks, the next instant spell and the next sorcery spell you cast this turn each have cascade.
Crew 2
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Price
- $0.17
- EDHREC rank
- #14684
Smoldering Stagecoach puts a 3/3 Zombie with menace on the battlefield and threatens to grow every turn it attacks — that's a real clock on a six-mana body. Averna, the Chaos Bloom decks are its clearest home, where cascading into it off the top generates a threat that keeps pressuring opponents without requiring additional resources.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Averna, the Chaos Bloom cascades permanents onto the battlefield for free, and Smoldering Stagecoach rewards that high-velocity permanent flow by entering the red zone as a self-sufficient, ever-growing menace threat that doesn't need extra setup once it lands.
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 |
Smoldering Stagecoach is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Legacy and Vintage set the bar far too high for a six-mana creature that doesn't immediately win the game or protect itself. Commander is where it actually belongs — the multiplayer life totals give it time to attack repeatedly and grow, and cascade commanders like Averna, the Chaos Bloom can drop it for free off the top of the library. In Oathbreaker it's technically playable but the lower starting life totals and faster pace make a slow-building six-drop hard to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.17 bulk tier
At $0.17, Smoldering Stagecoach is deep bulk — pick it up for next to nothing and don't expect the price to move. It's a low-risk inclusion for cascade or Zombie tribal builds where the slot cost in dollars is basically zero.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Averna, the Chaos Bloom
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.