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Auton Soldier

Artifact Creature — Alien Soldier4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

The trick here is stapling two mechanics that were never meant to meet: the enters-as-a-copy clone, and myriad, a multiplayer attack keyword that spins off temporary token copies aimed at each opponent. Clones normally give you one body that mimics one creature; myriad normally lives on a fixed creature that just makes more of itself. Fuse them and the copy you choose becomes the template for the tokens, so a single attack fans out into a board's worth of whatever you pointed it at. Because the printed body is 0/0, this needs the clone half to survive at all: choose nothing and it dies immediately, so the copy target is not a bonus but a prerequisite. The tokens are full copies, so they carry the copied creature's stats, static abilities, and triggered abilities alike; what they don't get is a fresh attack trigger, because myriad's tokens enter already tapped and attacking, past the declare-attackers step. Any "whenever this attacks" clause on your target (including a second instance of myriad) never fires on the tokens; you get the bodies, not the cascade. The artifact-and-not-legendary rider is the quiet leash: it can copy a legendary bomb without folding to the legend rule, but it also becomes an artifact, opening it to a whole category of removal that would not otherwise touch a blue creature. It reads like a novelty crossover piece, and in most contexts it is one, but choosing your clone target and then multiplying that choice at every combat is a decision space neither parent mechanic offers alone.

Auton Soldier (who)
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Pricing
Normal: $10.91
Foil: $11.94
Oracle Text

Rules text

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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