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Leaden Myr

Artifact Creature — Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Planechase
Price
$1.68
EDHREC rank
#1794
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Leaden Myr card art
Leaden Myr is a two-mana 1/1 that taps for black mana — unremarkable on its own, but it earns its slot the moment Myr Galvanizer or Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch enters the picture. In Myr tribal or artifact combo shells, it's a combo piece that happens to ramp you while it waits.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch

95.0% of decks · synergy 0.92

Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch untaps all your Myr at the beginning of combat, turning Leaden Myr into repeatable black mana every turn cycle and fueling the storm of activated abilities Urtet decks chain together. At a 95% inclusion rate across nearly 17,000 decks, it's essentially a auto-include.

02
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest

75.4% of decks · synergy 0.73

Rendmaw, Creaking Nest rewards you for sacrificing artifacts, and Leaden Myr is a cheap, expendable body that converts into an Insect token while generating the mana to keep the engine spinning. It's a two-for-one in sacrifice loops that Rendmaw decks are built around.

03
Urza, Chief Artificer

Urza, Chief Artificer

39.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Urza, Chief Artificer gives all artifacts you control menace, so Leaden Myr becomes a threat that demands a blocker while still doing mana work. It's a cheap artifact body that supports the affinity-style density Urza decks want.

04
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden

34.8% of decks · synergy 0.33

Leaden Myr's power of 1 puts it squarely in range of Grenzo, Dungeon Warden's activated ability, so it can be cheated onto the battlefield from the bottom of the library for two mana. That combination of recursion target and mana producer is exactly the value loop Grenzo decks are hunting.

05
Syr Konrad, the Grim

Syr Konrad, the Grim

31.8% of decks · synergy 0.26

Syr Konrad, the Grim pings opponents whenever a creature leaves the graveyard or another creature dies, and Leaden Myr is a cheap creature that cycles through sacrifice loops to trigger those pings repeatedly. The black mana it produces along the way helps pay for Konrad's activated ability.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Leaden Myr is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — but Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Pauper it's technically castable, but a 1/1 for two that taps for one colored mana can't compete when faster, more impactful commons are available. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to touch it. Commander is the home because Myr tribal synergies, sacrifice loops, and combo lines involving Myr Galvanizer reward having every Myr that taps for mana, and Leaden Myr fills the black pip that five-color Urtet builds specifically need.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.68 cheap tier

At $1.68, Leaden Myr sits in the cheap tier — reasonable for a card that's a near-auto-include in a popular tribe with a dedicated commander. It's not a card that holds speculative value, but given its 95% inclusion rate in Urtet, Remnant of Memnarch decks, the price reflects steady demand rather than hype.

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