Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola
Artifact // Artifact — Vehicle
: Mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Craft with Island 
(, Exile this artifact, Exile an Island you control or an Island card from your graveyard: Return this card transformed under its owner's control. Craft only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #15757
Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola is a 5/5 vehicle that crews itself and flips into a repeatable artifact token generator — the back half is the reason you run it. Tetzin, Gnome Champion decks want both halves: the Hulk side is a cheap artifact body that triggers Tetzin's counters, and Watertight Gondola churns out the Powerstone tokens that keep the engine moving.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Tetzin, Gnome Champion is the natural home because Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola hits every checkbox the deck cares about — it's an artifact, it self-crews to stay active, and the transformed Gondola generates Powerstone tokens that both ramp into Tetzin's activated abilities and satisfy his artifact-enters-the-battlefield triggers.
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 |
Commander is where Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola actually matters — the Powerstone token generation on the back half scales with the longer game, and artifact-matters commanders like Tetzin, Gnome Champion treat it as a two-for-one in a single card slot. In competitive non-rotating formats like Legacy and Modern, a 5/5 vehicle with no immediate board impact and a slow transform condition can't compete for the slot. Pioneer and Standard offer the most plausible secondary home, where artifact synergy decks occasionally need cheap, self-sustaining bodies, but the card has never broken through as a constructed staple there. Treat it as a Commander-specific pickup.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola is firmly bulk — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk rares with narrow commander applications rarely appreciate, so pick up copies for your Tetzin build without any expectation that the price moves.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Tetzin, Gnome Champion
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.