Myriad Construct 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
KickerIf this creature was kicked, it enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each nonbasic land your opponents control. When this creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it and create a number of 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature tokens equal to its power.
Complete guide
Myriad Construct is a versatile artifact creature that adapts to your opponent's resource pool and punishes targeted removal. Whether you use it as a massive threat or a swarm of tokens, understanding its triggered ability is key to mastering the battlefield.
What It Does
Myriad Construct features a Kicker cost that allows it to enter the battlefield much larger if your opponents control nonbasic lands. However, its most unique feature is its 'fragility'; if any player targets it with a spell, the Construct is sacrificed to create a small army of 1/1 tokens.
How It Resolves Step by Step
When a spell is cast targeting Myriad Construct, the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of that spell. First, you sacrifice Myriad Construct. Then, you check its power as it last existed on the battlefield. Finally, you create that many 1/1 colorless Construct artifact creature tokens. Because this happens while the spell is still on the stack, the original spell will usually lose its target and fail to resolve if Myriad Construct was its only target.
Common Mistakes
A common error is thinking the Kicker cost can be paid when putting the creature into play via effects that don't involve casting. You can only kick a spell if you are officially casting it. Additionally, remember that the ability triggers when it is targeted by *any* spell, including your own combat tricks or protection spells. If a spell targets it multiple times, the ability only triggers once.
When to Play It
Cast it early for four mana to apply pressure, or save it for the late game when opponents have played powerful utility lands to maximize the +1/+1 counters. It is also an excellent insurance policy against targeted removal like 'Destroy target creature', as you will get a board full of tokens instead of losing your creature entirely.
Interaction examples
Roaming ThroneIf you control Roaming Throne with 'Construct' chosen as the creature type, Myriad Construct's sacrifice ability triggers an additional time. When a spell targets Myriad Construct, the first instance of the ability resolves, you sacrifice the Construct, and create tokens based on its power. The second instance then resolves; since the Construct is already gone, you use its last known power on the battlefield to create a second batch of tokens!
Solemn SimulacrumWhile Solemn Simulacrum helps you find basic lands, Myriad Construct cares about your opponents' nonbasic lands. If you cast Myriad Construct for its kicker cost ({4} plus {3}) and your opponent controls three nonbasic lands, it enters with three +1/+1 counters. If it is then targeted by a spell, you will sacrifice it and create seven 1/1 Construct tokens (4 base power plus 3 counters).
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Myriad Construct
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
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- #6· Wizards of the Coast
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
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- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If you don't sacrifice Myriad Construct as its last ability resolves (perhaps because its ability triggered more than once and you've already sacrificed it), you still create Construct tokens. The number of tokens you create is determined by Myriad Construct's power as it last existed on the battlefield.
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- #8· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell targets Myriad Construct more than once, its last ability triggers only once.
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- #9· Wizards of the Coast
An ability that triggers when a permanent becomes the target of a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
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