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Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force

Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

More Than Meets the Eye {1}{R}{W}{B} (You may cast this card converted for {1}{R}{W}{B}.)
Your opponents can't cast spells during combat.
At the beginning of each of your postcombat main phases, you may convert Megatron. If you do, add {C} for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{3}{R}{W}{B}
Color identity
BRW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Transformers
Price
$20.17
EDHREC rank
#11276
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Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force card art
Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force converts damage into Energon counters and those counters into extra combat steps, effectively stapling Aggravated Assault onto a six-mana body that also threatens to convert into a one-shot cannon. The cost is real — six mana before you see any payoff, and the transform condition demands you've already built a board — but the ceiling is a hard lock on the game if you untap with it.

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

Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force is a Commander card through and through — the six-mana cost, the slow counter accumulation, and the transform payoff all presuppose a longer game where you have time to set up a board and swing repeatedly. In Commander it fits cleanly into any Grixis or Boros shell that cares about extra combats or +1/+1 counters, and the legendary status means it can sit in the command zone itself. Legacy and Vintage are legal destinations on paper, but neither format has the patience for a six-mana do-nothing-immediately creature when those formats close games on turns one through three. Oathbreaker is legal but faces the same speed mismatch.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If the price is the obstacle, Savage Beating and Moraug, Fury of Akoum both generate extra combat steps without requiring a transform sequence or counter accumulation, and neither crosses $5. The trade-off is that Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force bundles the extra-combat engine with a growing threat that can close games on its own — the alternatives give you the steps but not the self-contained finisher.

Price Context

Current price

$20.17 premium tier

At $20.17, Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force sits in the premium tier, driven in part by the Transformers crossover novelty factor on top of its genuine playability. The price is defensible if you're building around the extra-combat axis, but it's worth watching — crossover cards tend to hold value with collectors even when tournament demand is low, which provides a soft floor.

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