Greasefang, Okiba Boss | Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty | Art by Tapioca
17, Jan, 25

The Best MTG Vehicle Support Cards To Grab Before Aetherdrift

Get in gear before the race begins!

We’re only four days away from Aetherdrift preview season. That’s just 96 more hours until we get our first taste of what 2025 will bring to Magic: The Gathering. Based on the lore and overall marketing for the set so far, it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing a lot of Vehicles in Aetherdrift. For that reason, now could be the ideal time to stock up on some of the best Vehicle support cards MTG has printed in the past.

With a potentially huge influx of new Vehicles coming, demand for these cards will likely skyrocket as previews progress. This means there are great deals to be had if you get in on these cards now rather than waiting ’till later. If you like playing Vehicles, no matter the format, these are five cards you should be looking at right about now.

5 | Miriam, Herd Whisperer

Miriam, Herd Whisperer
  • Mana Value: GW
  • Rarity: Uncommon
  • Type: Legendary Creature – Human Druid
  • Stats: 3/2
  • Card Text: During your turn, Mounts and Vehicles you control have Hexproof.
    Whenever a Mount or Vehicle you control attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Kicking off our list we have a relatively recent addition to the game: Miriam, Herd Whisperer. This card was released in last year’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction and has thus far failed to show up pretty much anywhere. It’s one of the better Vehicle support cards MTG has seen so far, however, so there’s a good chance Aetherdrift brings it into the fray.

The card just does an awful lot for two mana. It protects your Vehicles on your turn, and it gives them a permanent buff when they attack. It also packs three power, which lets it crew Vehicles very well for its cost. Even better? It does all of this for Mounts too. We know for a fact that Mounts is coming back in Aetherdrift, so Miriam should be especially useful.

A card like Miriam, which supports both card types, is a great investment. It’s only about $0.15 right now, and it’ll be legal in Standard alongside Aetherdrift for two full years. Players have only really whispered about Miriam so far, but I expect they’ll be shouting her praises once Aetehrdrift hits.

4 | Edward Kenway

Vehicle Support Cards MTG Edward Kenway
  • Mana Value: 3UBR
  • Rarity: Mythic Rare
  • Type: Legendary Creature – Human Assassin Pirate
  • Stats: 5/5
  • Card Text: At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each tapped Assassin, Pirate, and/or Vehicle you control.
    Whenever a Vehicle you control deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of that player’s library, then exile it face down. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Moving from Standard into the deep, deep waters of Commander, we have Edward Kenway. This is another 2024 legend, arriving in the mostly underwhelming Assassin’s Creed set. Kenway bucks the overall trend of the expansion by actually being a very powerful Commander for Vehicle decks and beyond.

Kenway’s Treasure-making ability works with Vehicles, Pirates, and Assassins, while his card-stealing ability works exclusively with Vehicles. In other words, you really want to be going deep on the Vehicles if you’re running this scoundrel at the helm. Once Aetherdrift hits, it should be much easier to do that.

The Pirate aspect of the card is actually relevant here too. In Mark Rosewater’s teaser article for Aetherdrift, he confirms that the rules text “Whenever you attack, if a Pirate and a Vehicle attacked this combat,” will appear somewhere in the set. If we’re going to see some Pirate/Vehicle cross-synergy, Edward Kenway is the perfect Commander to support that.

The card isn’t exactly cheap right now, going for around $12 on the low end. If Aetherdrift jacks up the demand that $12 could end up looking like a bargain in a month or so.

3 | Mech Hangar

Mech Hangar
  • Rarity: Uncommon
  • Type: Land
  • Card Text: Tap: Add C.
    Tap: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a Pilot or Vehicle spell.
    3, Tap: Target Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.

Flashy legends are one thing, but any seasoned Magic player knows that good lands are where the real power lies in a given deck. For a Vehicles deck, they really don’t come any better than Mech Hangar. It comes in untapped, perfectly fixes your mana, and can even ‘crew’ your Vehicles for you if your board gets wiped. Put simply, it’s one of the best MTG Vehicle support cards of all time.

It’s not a particularly expensive card right now, at around $0.20 a copy, but it’s also an absolute must-have in any Vehicle deck in a non-Standard format. If you’re playing Edward Kenway in Commander, you’ll need a copy. If you’re jamming Vehicles in Pioneer, you’ll need four. The potential demand here is absolutely massive, and we’ve certainly seen uncommons creep up into the $5 range in the past.

There’s no guarantee that Mech Hangar will follow a similar trajectory, of course. Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty was a hugely popular set, so there are countless copies available right now. That said, if you have any inkling of playing Vehicles in the future, you may want to grab a playset or two while they’re still cheap. This is like the Cavern of Souls of Vehicle decks, after all.

2 | Sram, Senior Edificer

Vehicle Support Cards MTG Sram, Senior Edificer
  • Mana Value: 1W
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Type: Legendary Creature – Dwarf Advisor
  • Stats: 2/2
  • Card Text: Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

The last two entries on this list probably won’t surprise anyone, except maybe with how cheap they still are. Sram, Senior Edificer is a card that has seen its fair share of play in multiple formats. Typically it’s used as an enabler for Cheerios-esque artifact combo decks, but it can also serve as a solid card advantage engine in fair strategies.

Two mana is incredibly cheap for an effect like this, and the lack of any kind of ‘once per turn’ limit makes Sram a serious powerhouse in the right deck. If Aetherdrift brings some cheap new Vehicles to the table, Sram’s stock could go way up. We already know from the teaser that we’re getting a “13/13 Vehicle with Crew 2 that costs one mana to cast.” If the downside is right, this could be a card that pairs perfectly with Sram.

In any case, the card is a safe bet for Commander, so you can’t go far wrong picking up some copies now. There are quite a few printings of Sram, including a Retro Frame version and a spicy Multiverse Legends one. For the most part, these sit in the $1-2 range, which is very reasonable for a card as flexible as this.

1 | Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Vehicle Support Cards MTG Greasefang, Okiba Boss
  • Mana Value: 1WB
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Type: Legendary Creature – Rat Pilot
  • Stats: 4/3
  • Card Text: At the beginning of combat on your turn, return target Vehicle card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains Haste. Return it to its owner’s hand at the beginning of your next end step.

For all the Pioneer players out there, this one’s for you. Greasefang is so well-known in the format that it has actually lent its name to an archetype, Mardu Greasefang. MTG Decks puts it at Tier 2 in the current meta, but it’s still a viable choice. It’s also a deck that absolutely loves big Vehicles, and will therefore likely get a lot better post-Aetherdrift.

Greasefang’s ability to reanimate hasty Vehicles for free as early as turn three makes it a pretty terrifying threat. With Parhelion II alone it can hit for 13 in the air, then use the tokens to finish the job on turn four. At the time of writing, Greasefang is really the only Vehicle-focused deck in competitive Magic. Greasefang itself is the central card of that deck. Therefore, logic dictates that this will be the card to spike if Aetherdrift bumps the deck up a tier.

Like much of this list, Greasefang is incredibly affordable right now. Regular copies can be had for around $0.30, and even the fancy Secret Lair wanted poster version is only around $3. Picking up any of these right now is likely a smart move. If we’re going to see big Vehicles anywhere it’ll be in Aetherdrift, after all.

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