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Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
Legendary Creature — Spirit · {5}{U}{U}{U} · Blue commander
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Cryptic Dreams: Copy target permanent spell you control three times. (The copies become tokens.)
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What Myojin of Cryptic Dreams actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- AbilityMyojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
- AbilityRemove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Cryptic Dreams: Copy target permanent spell you control three times.
What a Myojin of Cryptic Dreams deck needs
Plays as permanent copies. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- high-impact nonlegendary permanent spells — enter triggers and big threats (it copies one three times)
- cast the commander from hand (the indestructible counter only comes from a hand cast)
The Myojin of Cryptic Dreams deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 22× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 12× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
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.
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Snapcaster Mage2 mana
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian2 mana
- Archaeomancer4 mana
- Urza, Lord High Artificer4 mana
- Aether Channeler3 mana
- Spellseeker3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Snap2 mana
- Into the Flood Maw1 mana
- Unsummon1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Reshape2 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
- Long-Term Plans3 mana
- Whir of Invention3 mana
- Merchant Scroll2 mana
- Mystical Tutor1 mana
- Muddle the Mixture2 mana
- Personal Tutor1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
- Perplexing Test5 mana
- Cyclonic Rift2 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Combat Research1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Hazoret's Monument3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Twinning Staff3 mana
- K-9, Mark I1 mana
Combos with Myojin of Cryptic Dreams
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Myojin of Cryptic Dreams is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Deepglow Skate2,324 decks
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Glistening Sphere808 decks
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Pollenbright Druid571 decks
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Throne Of Geth550 decks
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Gitaxian Anatomist508 decks
- Myojin of Cryptic Dreams + Kiora's Dambreaker470 decks