megatron armado

Format: Commander

Commander: Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Mardu artifact deck is led by Megatron, Tyrant, leveraging its vehicle face (Megatron, Destructive Force) to convert high-mana artifacts into direct creature removal, excess burn damage, and explosive postcombat colorless mana. The primary strategy aims to ramp on Turn 2, cast Megatron converted on Turn 3, and begin sacrificing expensive artifacts—such as warped, prototyped, or reanimated beaters—on Turn 4 and 5. This fuel generates massive mana bursts to cast game-ending threats like Torment of Hailfire, Blightsteel Colossus, or Wake the Past. A resilient graveyard package featuring Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa, Osgir, the Reconstructor, and Living Death ensures that sacrificed or milled artifacts return to the battlefield repeatedly. While Megatron prevents opponent spells during combat and one-sided sweepers like Organic Extinction decimate opposing creature boards, the deck lacks stack-based countermagic and unconditional tutors, relying on dense functional redundancy and combat damage to close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Anrakyr the Traveller
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
• 1 Bygone Colossus
• 1 Canoptek Spyder
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1 Cityscape Leveler
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Darksteel Colossus
• 1 Delete
• 1 Devastating Onslaught
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Drossforge Bridge
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extinguisher Battleship
• 1 Fabrication Foundry
• 1 Feldon of the Third Path
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Furycalm Snarl
• 1 Goblin Engineer
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Junk Diver
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
• 1 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force
• 1 Metalworker
• 1 Mimic Vat
• 1 Mirage Mirror
• 1 Mirrorworks
• 1 Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Myr Battlesphere
• 1 Myr Retriever
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Neheb, the Eternal
• 1 Organic Extinction
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Osgir, the Reconstructor
• 1 Palladium Myr
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phoenix Fleet Airship
• 4 Plains
• 1 Public Thoroughfare
• 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
• 1 Rebbec, Architect of Ascension
• 1 Refurbish
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Rustvale Bridge
• 1 Scrap Mastery
• 1 Scrap Trawler
• 1 Scrap Welder
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spine of Ish Sah
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
• 1 Tendo Ice Bridge
• 1 The Endstone
• 1 The Fire Nation Drill
• 1 Their Name Is Death
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Trash for Treasure
• 1 Triplicate Titan
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Wake the Past
• 1 Wurmcoil Engine