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Cayth, Famed Mechanist

Legendary Creature — Dwarf Artificer

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.
{2}, {T}: Choose one —
• Populate.
• Proliferate.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{U}{R}{W}
Color identity
RUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Modern Horizons 3 Commander
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4077
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Cayth, Famed Mechanist card art
Cayth, Famed Mechanist gives you a free blink — or rather, a free flicker on any artifact creature with power 2 or less at the end of combat — which turns creatures like Aethergeode Miner into repeatable engines every single attack step. The cost is real: you need artifacts with low power, you need to be swinging, and the payoff lives entirely at end of combat rather than on your schedule.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zinnia, Valley's Voice

Zinnia, Valley's Voice

42.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Zinnia, Valley's Voice rewards you for attacking with multiple creatures, and Cayth, Famed Mechanist turns each combat step into a flicker trigger — enter-the-battlefield effects from your artifact creatures stack on top of whatever Zinnia is already generating, making the engine compound fast.

02
Satya, Aetherflux Genius

Satya, Aetherflux Genius

40.4% of decks · synergy 0.32

Satya, Aetherflux Genius creates token copies of attacking artifacts, and Cayth, Famed Mechanist flickers the originals at end of combat — doubling your ETB triggers on the same attack and letting Satya's copies vanish while the real pieces reset for the next swing.

03

Optimus Prime, Hero

31.1% of decks · synergy 0.23

Optimus Prime, Hero wants an artifact-creature-heavy board, and Cayth, Famed Mechanist fits naturally into that shell by keeping your low-power artifact creatures churning through ETB effects every combat without spending a mana or an additional card.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Cayth, Famed Mechanist lives — the format's slower pace gives you time to assemble the artifact-creature board the ability demands, and EDH's abundance of ETB payoffs means the flicker trigger compounds quickly. Legacy and Vintage are both technically legal but have zero interest in a four-mana legend whose ability triggers at end of combat; those formats want to win before you untap, not grind value over several attacks. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, and only if you're building a dedicated artifact-creature shell with a compatible planeswalker.

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Price Context

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.