Great Gilded Boat
HOB · rare · Released 2026-08-14
Power
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Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
minor value alone
wants support
scales up
one mode
broadly useful
hard to remove
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Rationale
Great Gilded Boat is a 4/4 Vehicle for 3 that loots on each attack and creates 1/1 Human Soldier tokens whenever a nonland card is discarded, making it a repeatable token-engine and hand-filter in combat-oriented decks. It's most at home in tokens-go-wide shells where the produced Soldiers feed future Crew and anthem effects, and in wheels/discard-matters builds where the loot synergizes with graveyard value. The Crew 2 cost is easy to meet once tokens are accumulating, but the card requires a board presence to get online and does nothing outside of combat.
Learnings (3)
The 'recruit' ability always loots (draw then discard), but only creates a Human Soldier token if the discarded card is a nonland — so in a land-heavy hand, the token generation can be inconsistent.
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Because recruit triggers on 'whenever you attack' (not 'whenever this creature attacks'), the ability fires even if the Vehicle itself isn't crewed, as long as any creature you control is declared as an attacker.
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The produced 1/1 Human Soldier tokens enter after the attack trigger resolves, so they cannot be used to help crew the Boat in the same combat step they are created.
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Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #28,592