CardName: Lunar Rover Cost: 1 Type: Artifact - Lander Vehicle Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. 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.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: [Assorted] Card Repository Common |
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Does Lander have any meaning? Wotc avoids noncreature subtypes unless something refers to them mechanically
Lander is tied to Rampant Growth-style/land tutoring effects in the same way Food is tied to life gain effects and Blood to rummage/loot effects.
The set I imagine for this would refer to the type on certain cards to create a subdivision between more militaristic Vehicles and more exploration/expansion- or public-service/maintenace-oriented Vehicles.
There could be a Colony Ship that tutors for Landers etc.
So it's half a mechanical identifier (you have this type, you have an expectation of a certain effect) and half something that can be referred to. Comparable to Curse.