Ballista Charger

set	min	mtgo
-	56.27	0.03 tix

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Name	Ballista Charger
Type	Artifact — vehicle
Description	Whenever Ballista Charger attacks, it deals 1 damage to any target. Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
Artist	Sung Choi
Set	Kaladesh Remastered #221
Wallpaper	download
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About Ballista Charger

Ballista Charger, Artifact — vehicle, designed by Sung Choi first released in Sep, 2016 in the set Kaladesh and was printed exactly in 3 different ways. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 56.27.

This Ballista Charger card would be beneficial in a deck that focuses on aggressive strategies and creature-heavy gameplay, as it provides a consistent source of direct damage when attacking. However, there are potentially better options available in the current Magic: The Gathering card pool, such as Smuggler's Copter, which offers card filtering and evasion. While Ballista Charger can be a solid inclusion in certain decks, its effectiveness may vary depending on the overall strategy and synergy of the deck, so it may not see widespread play in competitive environments.

Rules

09/29/17

For a Vehicle to be able to attack, it must be a creature as the declare attackers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to attack with it is during the beginning of combat step. For a Vehicle to be able to block, it must be a creature as the declare blockers step begins, so the latest you can activate its crew ability to block with it is during the declare attackers step. In either case, players may take actions after the crew ability resolves but before the Vehicle has been declared as an attacking or blocking creature.

09/29/17

If a permanent becomes a copy of a Vehicle, the copy won’t be a creature, even if the Vehicle it’s copying has become an artifact creature.

09/29/17

If an effect causes a Vehicle to become an artifact creature with a specified power and toughness, that effect overwrites the Vehicle’s printed power and toughness.

09/29/17

Once a player announces that they are activating a crew ability, no player may take other actions until the ability has been paid for. Notably, players can’t try to stop the ability by changing a creature’s power or by removing or tapping a creature.

09/29/17

Once a Vehicle becomes a creature, it behaves exactly like any other artifact creature. It can’t attack unless you’ve controlled it continuously since your turn began, it can block if it’s untapped, it can be tapped to pay a Vehicle’s crew cost, and so on.

09/29/17

You may tap more creatures than necessary to activate a crew ability.

09/20/16

Ballista Charger’s triggered ability resolves before blockers are chosen. A creature dealt lethal damage this way won’t be around to block.