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The Fire Nation Drill

The Fire Nation Drill

Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

The Fire Nation Drill wants a deck that turns its Vehicles into creatures and attacks with them. It also works in a deck built around Vehicles.

  • Mana cost2 genericblackblack
  • Black ()
  • Power / toughness6 / 3
  • RarityRare

Trample

When The Fire Nation Drill enters, you may tap it. When you do, destroy target creature with power 4 or less.

1 generic: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Crew 2

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Cards That Fit The Fire Nation Drill

Picked for what they do in The Fire Nation Drill's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit The Fire Nation Drill's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for The Fire Nation Drill

explain how The Fire Nation Drill works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, damage previously dealt to a creature with indestructible may cause it to be destroyed if The Fire Nation Drill's first activated ability resolves during that turn.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

If a permanent enters under an opponent's control with hexproof or indestructible after The Fire Nation Drill's first activated ability resolves, it won't lose that ability unless you activate The Fire Nation Drill's ability again. The same is true if an opponent's permanent gains indestructible or hexproof after The Fire Nation Drill's ability resolves.

2 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with The Fire Nation Drill, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryBPlayers write colors as letters: B for black.VehiclesVehicle decks use Vehicles, artifacts that become creatures when you tap your own creatures to crew them. A Vehicle is not a creature the rest of the time, so it survives spells that destroy all creatures and then turns into an attacker when you need it.Open the Vehicles pageVehicleAn artifact subtype that is not a creature until it is crewed. Crew N is an activated ability: tap any number of untapped creatures you control whose total power is N or more, and the Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn. The crewing creatures are only tapped: they are never sacrificed, they do not attack, and summoning sickness does not stop them from crewing. Smuggler's CopterOpen the Vehicle pageETB ValueDoes something useful the moment it arrives: an enter the battlefield ability, which players shorten to ETB. You keep that effect even if the card is removed straight afterwards, which is why these pair so well with flicker cards that make them enter again. Solemn Simulacrum, The One RingOpen the ETB Value pageMana SinkGives you somewhere useful to spend spare mana, usually through an ability you can activate again and again. Rogue's Passage, Mind StoneOpen the Mana Sink pageVehiclesVehicles are artifacts that become creatures when you crew them by tapping your own creatures with enough total power.Open the Vehicles pageProtectionA creature with protection from something, like a color, is safe from anything with that quality. It cannot be damaged, enchanted or equipped, blocked, or targeted by it, and players remember the four with the word DEBT. It does not stop effects that neither target nor damage, like a board wipe that destroys every creature. ProgenitusOpen the Protection page