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Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Artificer · {1}{U}{R}{W} · Red/Blue/White commander

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Other nontoken creatures you control have fabricate 1. {2}, {T}: Choose one — • Populate. • Proliferate.
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What Cayth, Famed Mechanist actually does

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What a Cayth, Famed Mechanist deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  3. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana
  4. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  5. Goblin Chieftain3 mana
  6. Blacksmith's Talent1 mana
  7. The Fire Crystal4 mana
  8. Cloudshredder Sliver2 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Aurelia, the Warleader6 mana
  3. Reconnaissance1 mana
  4. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  5. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  6. Freed from the Real3 mana
  7. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  8. Retreat to Coralhelm3 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Thrummingbird2 mana
  2. Grateful Apparition2 mana
  3. Metastatic Evangel2 mana
  4. Cacophony Scamp1 mana
  5. Dreamtide Whale3 mana
  6. Flux Channeler3 mana
  7. Patrolling Peacemaker3 mana
  8. Vexing Radgull2 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Guide of Souls1 mana
  2. Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
  3. Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin3 mana
  4. Ainok Strike Leader2 mana
  5. Arabella, Abandoned Doll2 mana
  6. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun2 mana
  8. Jacked Rabbit2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  3. Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon3 mana
  4. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  5. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  6. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  7. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  8. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  5. Pongify1 mana
  6. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  7. Resculpt2 mana
  8. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  6. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  7. Citywide Bust3 mana
  8. Displacement Wave2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Reshape2 mana
  2. Mask of the Mimic1 mana
  3. Long-Term Plans3 mana
  4. Open the Armory2 mana
  5. Whir of Invention3 mana
  6. Merchant Scroll2 mana
  7. Enlightened Tutor1 mana
  8. Mystical Tutor1 mana

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