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Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle · {3}{R}{W}{B} · Black/Red/White commander

More Than Meets the Eye {1}{R}{W}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {1}{R}{W}{B}.) Your opponents can't cast spells during combat. At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may convert Megatron. If you do, add {C} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn. Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.) Whenever Megatron attacks, you may sacrifice another artifact. When you do, Megatron deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to target creature. If excess damage would be dealt to that creature this way, instead that damage is dealt to that creature's controller and you convert Megatron.

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What Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · otherAt the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may convert Megatron. If you do, add {C} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Megatron attacks, you may sacrifice another artifact. When you do, Megatron deals damage equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value to target creature. If excess damage would be dealt to t
• Static ability · taxYour opponents can't cast spells during combat.
• Keyword · more than meets the eyemore than meets the eye
• Keyword · living metalliving metal

What a Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force deck needs

Plays as stax. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• artifacts (its text counts them)
• cheap artifacts, Treasures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander's outlet eats artifacts, not creatures)
• stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor
• burn and damage sources (opponents' life loss is your mana)
• damage and drain every turn (its effect is sized by the life the opponents lost this turn)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
• 16× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force

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.

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