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Unlicensed Hearse

Artifact — Vehicle

{T}: Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard.
Unlicensed Hearse's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards exiled with it.
Crew 2

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$5.08
EDHREC rank
#3760
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Unlicensed Hearse card art
Unlicensed Hearse is the most efficient graveyard hate artifact in Commander — it exiles cards on a crew-able body that scales up as graveyards fill, all for two mana. The Vehicle angle matters too: it counts as a creature on the stack in ways that Magda, Brazen Outlaw rewards, and it permanently answers loop pieces like Eternal Scourge that other hate misses.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Magda, Brazen Outlaw

46.7% of decks · synergy 0.44

Magda, Brazen Outlaw cares about Dwarves and Vehicles, and Unlicensed Hearse is both — crewing it triggers Magda's treasure generation and counts toward the five-treasure tutor, making it pull double duty as hate piece and engine component.

02
Ketramose, the New Dawn

Ketramose, the New Dawn

33.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Ketramose, the New Dawn cares about life totals and incremental advantage, and Unlicensed Hearse's ability to exile multiple cards per turn denies opponents the recursive threats that let life-drain decks get out-raced.

03
Balthier and Fran

Balthier and Fran

31.9% of decks · synergy 0.32

Balthier and Fran want Vehicles on the battlefield to crew and abuse, and Unlicensed Hearse fits the artifact-Vehicle package Balthier and Fran assemble while keeping opponent recursion permanently offline.

04
Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Greasefang, Okiba Boss

23.8% of decks · synergy 0.22

Greasefang, Okiba Boss is a Vehicle combo commander, and Unlicensed Hearse slots into that shell as a cheaper Vehicle that also hate-checks opposing graveyard decks trying to race Greasefang's own lines.

05
Miles "Tails" Prower

Miles "Tails" Prower

17.6% of decks · synergy 0.16

Miles "Tails" Prower generates value off artifacts and Vehicles, so Unlicensed Hearse earns its slot twice — once as a synergy piece and once as the graveyard answer that keeps the table's recursion in check.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Unlicensed Hearse is a staple-level include in any deck that runs Vehicles or wants repeatable graveyard exile without dedicating a slot to a purely reactive hate piece. Modern and Pioneer have historically used it as a sideboard rock against graveyard combo, and it's occasionally seen main-deck play in artifact shells where the crew cost is trivial. Legacy and Vintage have access to stronger and faster graveyard hate, so Unlicensed Hearse doesn't compete there. The sweet spot for this card remains 60-card midrange formats and Commander alike — anywhere a two-mana artifact that grows and interacts is worth a slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Relic of Progenitus and Soul-Guide Lantern both come in under $1 and exile from graveyards on demand, though neither becomes a creature or scales in size the way Unlicensed Hearse does. If the Vehicle body is irrelevant to your deck's game plan, either Relic or Lantern handles the core hate role for a fraction of the price — the trade-off is losing all the crew-synergy upside.

Price Context

Current price

$5.08 mid tier

At $5.08, Unlicensed Hearse sits in the mid tier — affordable enough to include without budget pain, priced above bulk because it pulls real work across multiple formats. It's unlikely to crater given its Commander demand across Vehicle commanders, so it's a safe pickup at current price.

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