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Ultron, Artificial Malevolence

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot Villain3 generic mana

The design's most singular move hides in the second clause: "if the token isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/2 Robot Villain creature in addition to its other types." Every noncreature artifact you play becomes a candidate for a body. An Equipment, a mana rock, a token-maker, a Vehicle that never needs a crew: pay the 2 generic mana and it enters as a fully animated 2/2 copy that still carries the original's static text and activated abilities. Most copy effects that touch artifacts leave you with a duplicate that sits there; here the duplicate walks onto the battlefield already able to attack. The 2 generic mana per trigger is the pressure valve. It scales with how many artifacts you can chain in a turn, so the ceiling has no natural cap, but the floor stays honest because a mana-hungry board of animated artifacts still has to survive to swing. The 2/4 shell is almost incidental; this is an engine that happens to have legs. There's a real tension in what the ability asks of you: it copies things that were good precisely because they weren't creatures, then exposes those copies to creature removal they never had to fear before. Each trigger becomes a small negotiation, weighing the extra body against the mana spent and the new angle of attack you're handing your opponent.

Ultron, Artificial Malevolence (msh)
MSH · #401mythic
Pricing
Normal: $92.87
Foil: $98.73
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever another nontoken artifact you control enters, you may pay 2 generic mana. 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.
Legalities

Format Status

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