Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
More Than Meets the Eye 
(You may cast this card converted for .)
Ward
Whenever Ultra Magnus attacks, you may put an artifact creature card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. If you do, convert Ultra Magnus at end of combat.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Transformers
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #15358
Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier turns every creature you control into a potential vehicle crew, then rewards you for attacking with a 9/9 trampling semi-truck that doubles your combat triggers. The cost is real — five mana on the front face is a lot to ask before you've even flipped him — but the payoff in creature-dense, attack-focused Commander decks is immediate and decisive.
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 |
Commander is where Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier actually lives — the card is a Universes Beyond legendary creature built for 100-card multiplayer, and the front face's board-wide crewing ability scales directly with the token swarms and wide boards that Commander encourages. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but neither format has any reason to run a five-mana legendary that doesn't affect the board the turn it enters; those formats ignore it entirely. Oathbreaker is legal and theoretically a fit in aggressive creature strategies, but the four-player context of Commander is where the repeatable flip-and-attack loop generates enough advantage to justify the mana investment.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Ultra Magnus, Tactician // Ultra Magnus, Armored Carrier sits firmly in bulk rare territory, which is accurate for a narrow Universes Beyond card with a demanding mana cost. Demand is low enough that this price is unlikely to spike without a dedicated Commander archetype pushing it — pick it up cheap if the shell fits, but don't expect appreciation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.