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Myojin of Cryptic Dreams

Legendary Creature — Spirit

Myojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with an indestructible counter on it if you cast it from your hand.
Remove an indestructible counter from Myojin of Cryptic Dreams: Copy target permanent spell you control three times. (The copies become tokens.)

CMC
8
Mana cost
{5}{U}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Neon Dynasty Commander
Price
$0.43
EDHREC rank
#7527
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Myojin of Cryptic Dreams card art
Myojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with a divinity counter and lets you remove it to copy any number of spells or abilities you control — that's a game-winning trigger on a single card, not a slow incremental effect. The cost is eight mana for a fragile creature with no protection beyond the counter, so you need a shell that either cheats it into play or doubles its counter to fire twice; Deepglow Skate does exactly that, and Marvo, Deep Operative turns every Manifest Dread into a free cast that puts the Myojin into play with the counter already on it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Marvo, Deep Operative

Marvo, Deep Operative

61.8% of decks · synergy 0.60

Marvo, Deep Operative manifests cards face-down and lets you cast them for free when they're turned face-up, meaning Myojin of Cryptic Dreams hits the battlefield without paying its eight-mana cost and still arrives with its divinity counter intact. That makes the copy-everything ability available the same turn it enters, which is why Marvo decks run it at over 60% inclusion.

02
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus

35.6% of decks · synergy 0.34

Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus doubles the number of counters placed on permanents you control, so Myojin of Cryptic Dreams enters with two divinity counters instead of one — two separate activations of the copy effect off a single cast. That redundancy is the entire reason Tekuthal decks include it at roughly 36%.

03
Gogo, Master of Mimicry

Gogo, Master of Mimicry

15.2% of decks · synergy 0.14

Gogo, Master of Mimicry is built around copying spells and permanents, so Myojin of Cryptic Dreams fits as a one-card engine that multiplies whatever Gogo is already doing. The Myojin's ability to copy any number of spells at once scales directly with the density of strong effects Gogo generates each turn.

04
Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.14

Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres proliferates whenever you draw a card, which means Myojin of Cryptic Dreams can have its divinity counter restored over multiple turns rather than firing once and going dark. That looping potential is what pushes it into roughly 14% of Ezuri lists.

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

Myojin of Cryptic Dreams is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's realistically a Commander card — the eight-mana cost and enter-the-battlefield condition are unplayable in Legacy and Vintage without dedicated cheat-in infrastructure that those formats won't spend slots on. In Commander, the singleton rule means you're looking for a shell that either reduces its cost, puts it into play from another zone, or proliferates its counter; all three approaches exist and are well-supported. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, where a proliferate signature spell could reload the Myojin repeatedly, but the 20-life total makes the copy payoff less backbreaking than it is at Commander's 40.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.43 bulk tier

At $0.43, Myojin of Cryptic Dreams is bulk, which makes it a low-risk pickup for any counter-based or copy-heavy Commander build. The price reflects limited demand outside dedicated Marvo and Tekuthal shells rather than any weakness in the effect itself — if either of those archetypes spikes in popularity, the card moves with them.

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