Depala, Pilot Exemplar

Oracle Text
Other Dwarves you control get +1/+1.
Each Vehicle you control gets +1/+1 as long as it's a creature.
Whenever Depala, Pilot Exemplar becomes tapped, you may pay
. If you do, reveal the top X cards of your library, put all Dwarf and Vehicle cards from among them into your hand, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.Card Rulings
9/20/2016 Depala, Pilot Exemplar’s last ability is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn’t allow you to tap Depala whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of tapping it, such as by attacking.
9/20/2016 For the ability to trigger, Depala has to actually change from untapped to tapped. If an effect attempts to tap Depala, but it was already tapped at the time, this ability won’t trigger.
In my view the best way to describe them is as really bad equipment. You still need creatures for vehicles to function so anything that deals with creatures still ruins you, except that instead of having amazing cards like kor duelist and stoneforge mystic to synergize with your equipment you have much worse things like speedway fanatic and well depala, pilot exemplar. Instead of having amazing equipment like sword of fire and ice and umezawa's jitte you have stuff like fleetwheel cruiser or skysovereign, consul flagship. Also, I dislike the power requirement. skysovereign, consul flagship requires 3 power worth of creatures tapped deal 6 damage to a player. That is only 3 more damage then the creatures just swinging themselves. Also things like birds of paradise can't contribute at all. Finally, the vehicle will just die to blockers and stuff. Real equipment sticks around to help the next creature.
Maybe i'll be proven wrong once people are actually using these things but they just seem bad to me.
Well, let's see what aether revolt holds first...
Also, unplayable even in casual? Hardly! Low cmc for their P/T, only a creature when you need it to be, and you can tap a handful of your Servos to get a heavy-hitter. The Vehicles are brilliant!