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Cyclonus, the Saboteur // Cyclonus, Cybertronian Fighter
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
More Than Meets the Eye {5}{U}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {5}{U}{B}.) Flying Whenever Cyclonus deals combat damage to a player, it connives. Then if Cyclonus's power is 5 or greater, convert it. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
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“Blue-black shapeshifter that connives and converts for value.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Aristocrats
Sacrifice, Reanimator, Tokens
Strategy
Cyclonus is a clever two-faced commander that rewards you for converting between its artifact and vehicle modes. The deck leans into blue-black's signature strategy of drawing cards while draining opponents, using connive triggers and conversion synergies to fill your hand and grind out value. Your core game plan is to flip between modes to generate repeated connive triggers, mill your library strategically, and build a card advantage engine that eventually overwhelms opponents through aristocrat synergies or simply outlasting them with evasive threats.
The beauty here is that each mode does different work: the Robot side is a flying creature that connives and feeds your graveyard, while the Vehicle side ramps and enables more conversions. You'll want cheap creatures to crew and convert early, then pivot into value engines that abuse sacrifice outlets and enter-the-battlefield effects. Think of it as a self-mill deck that happens to be a creature threat—you're essentially turning your library into a resource while staying on the board.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive flyers like Grief; use cheaper evasive creatures like Vampire Nighthawk or Dreadwing, and replace ritual cards with basic card draw like Ponder and Consider.
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