Cayth, Famed Mechanist is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Other nontoken creatures you control have fabricate 1.,
: Choose one — • Populate. • Proliferate.
How it works : Cayth, Famed Mechanist
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You choose whether to put a +1/+1 counter on the creature or create a Servo token as the fabricate ability is resolving. No player may take actions between the time you choose and the time that the counter is added or the token is created.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Fabricate doesn't cause the creature with the ability to enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters already on it. For example, Cayth, Famed Machinist will enter the battlefield as a 3/3 creature, then its fabricate ability goes on the stack. Players may take actions (such as casting instants) while the ability is waiting to resolve.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If you can't put a +1/+1 counter on the creature for any reason as fabricate resolves (for instance, if it's no longer on the battlefield), you just create a Servo token.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the new token will work.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
When you proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #9· Wizards of the Coast
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter—only the ones you want to add counters to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #10· Wizards of the Coast
If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #11· Wizards of the Coast
Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Aethergeode Miner + Decoction Module
- 1Activate Aethergeode Miner by paying
, blinking it. - 2When Aethergeode Miner enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability and Decoction Module trigger.
- 3Resolve the Decoction Module trigger, causing you to get .
- 4Resolve the Aethergeode Miner trigger, creating a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 5When the Servo enters the battlefield, Decoction Module triggers, causing you to get .
- 6Repeat.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Aethergeode Miner + Gonti's Aether Heart
- 1Activate Aethergeode Miner by paying , blinking it.
- 2When Aethergeode Miner enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability triggers, creating a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 3When the Servo enters the battlefield, Gonti's Aether Heart triggers, causing you to get .
- 4Repeat.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Aethergeode Miner + Aetherstorm Roc
- 1Activate Aethergeode Miner by paying , blinking it.
- 2When Aethergeode Miner enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability and Aetherstorm Roc trigger.
- 3Resolve the Aetherstorm Roc trigger, causing you to get .
- 4Resolve the Aethergeode Miner trigger, creating a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 5When the Servo enters the battlefield, Aetherstorm Roc triggers, causing you to get .
- 6Repeat.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Aethergeode Miner + Guide of Souls
- 1Activate Aethergeode Miner by paying , blinking it.
- 2When Aethergeode Miner enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability and Guie of Souls trigger.
- 3Resolve the Guide of Souls trigger, causing you to get and gain 1 life.
- 4Resolve the Aethergeode Miner trigger, creating a 1/1 Servo artifact creature token.
- 5When the Servo enters the battlefield, Guide of Souls triggers, causing you to get and gain 1 life.
- 6Repeat.
Ashnod's Altar + Cayth, Famed Mechanist
- 1Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing the persist creature, adding
. - 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3When the persist creature enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Repeat.
Goblin Bombardment + Cayth, Famed Mechanist
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the persist creature.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3When the persist creature enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Cayth, Famed Mechanist + Intruder Alarm
- 1Activate any number of creatures you control by tapping them, adding at least .
- 2Activate Cayth by paying and tapping it, creating a copy of any creature token you control.
- 3When the creature token enters the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers, untapping all creatures.
- 4Repeat.
- 5If creatures you control can tap to produce at least
, this combo nets infinite mana.
Phyrexian Altar + Cayth, Famed Mechanist
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the persist creature, adding one mana of any color.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3When the persist creature enters the battlefield, its fabricate ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 4Repeat.
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