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The Prydwen, Steel Flagship

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

Flying
Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, create a 2/2 white Human Knight creature token with "This token gets +2/+2 as long as an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn."
Crew 2

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{W}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Fallout
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#6569
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The Prydwen, Steel Flagship card art
The Prydwen, Steel Flagship lands on the battlefield and immediately starts flooding your board with artifact creatures, making it one of the most impactful vehicle payoffs in Commander. The cost is real — it's a heavyweight that wants a dedicated support shell — but in the right deck alongside pieces like Nim Deathmantle and under a commander like Kolodin, Triumph Caster, the engine it creates is difficult to answer before it runs away with the game.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Kolodin, Triumph Caster

Kolodin, Triumph Caster

52.2% of decks · synergy 0.51

Kolodin, Triumph Caster is the premier home for The Prydwen, Steel Flagship — Kolodin's ability to recur and reward artifact play means the Flagship's token generation feeds a self-sustaining loop that fills the board and keeps refueling.

02
Miles "Tails" Prower

Miles "Tails" Prower

45.7% of decks · synergy 0.44

Miles "Tails" Prower leans into artifact synergies hard, and The Prydwen, Steel Flagship slots in as a token engine that gives Tails a steady stream of fodder to copy, sacrifice, or buff.

03
Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Greasefang, Okiba Boss

44.1% of decks · synergy 0.43

Greasefang, Okiba Boss is built around putting big vehicles into the graveyard and reanimating them for one devastating attack, and The Prydwen, Steel Flagship is one of the most explosive vehicles that strategy can cheat into play.

04
Dr. Madison Li

Dr. Madison Li

29.8% of decks · synergy 0.28

Dr. Madison Li rewards you for playing and recurring artifacts, so The Prydwen, Steel Flagship acts as both a high-value artifact target and a token generator that keeps the pipeline full.

05
Liberty Prime, Recharged

Liberty Prime, Recharged

19.3% of decks · synergy 0.18

Liberty Prime, Recharged wants a wide board of artifacts to back up its aggressive gameplan, and The Prydwen, Steel Flagship provides exactly that while also being a crewable threat in its own right.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where The Prydwen, Steel Flagship does its best work — the 100-card singleton format gives you room to build around its token generation, and the longer game means you'll reliably get to untap with it. Legacy and Vintage both allow it, but a six-mana vehicle that doesn't immediately win the game has no competitive place in either format. Oathbreaker is worth a mention: if your planeswalker commander cares about artifacts or tokens, The Prydwen, Steel Flagship is a strong include in that condensed, faster environment.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

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