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Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain · {3} · Colorless commander
Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it. If the token isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/2 Robot Villain creature in addition to its other types.
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What Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 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 · etbWhenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay {2}. If you do, create a token that's a copy of it. If the token isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/2 Robot Villain creature in additio
What an Ultron, Artificial Malevolence deck needs
Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifacts (its text counts them)
- creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
- high-value creatures and activated-ability creatures worth copying or borrowing
- token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
The Ultron, Artificial Malevolence deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 22× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 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 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
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 of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Meteor Golem7 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Dauntless Scrapbot3 mana
- Skyscanner3 mana
- Duplicant6 mana
- Threefold Thunderhulk7 mana
- Embermouth Sentinel2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Field of the Dead0 mana
- Fountainport0 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Spawnbed Protector7 mana
- Spider-Slayer, Hatred Honed2 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Golden Argosy4 mana
- Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- It That Heralds the End2 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Forsaken Monument5 mana
- Caged Sun6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Heroes' Podium5 mana
- Endurance Bobblehead3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Tome of Legends2 mana
- Buster Sword3 mana
Combos with Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ultron, Artificial Malevolence is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks3,863 decks
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + Myr Retriever + Ashnod's Altar2,912 decks
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + Voltaic Construct + Bag End Banquet41 decks
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + Darksteel Reactor + Eternity Vessel + The Ozolith40 decks
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + Karn, Silver Golem + Erratic Portal + Ugin's Nexus6 decks
- Ultron, Artificial Malevolence + The One Ring + Voltaic Construct + Skirge Familiar
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