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Simulacrum Synthesizer

Artifact

When this artifact enters, scry 2.
Whenever another artifact you control with mana value 3 or greater enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Big Score Promos
Price
$27.38
EDHREC rank
#1883
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Simulacrum Synthesizer card art
Simulacrum Synthesizer turns every artifact you cast into a free token factory, and in the right shell it generates more bodies per turn than most dedicated token engines. Iron Man, Titan of Innovation runs it in over half of all builds for exactly that reason — it's the card that makes an artifact-heavy gameplan feel like it has inevitability.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation

50.5% of decks · synergy 0.48

Iron Man, Titan of Innovation casts artifacts constantly, and Simulacrum Synthesizer converts every one of those casts into a free Construct token that scales in size — it's the cleanest possible pairing between a commander's game plan and a payoff.

02
Aloy, Savior of Meridian

Aloy, Savior of Meridian

46.5% of decks · synergy 0.45

Aloy, Savior of Meridian triggers off artifact and Construct activity, so Simulacrum Synthesizer isn't just generating tokens — it's feeding Aloy's own ability loop every time you play a nontoken artifact.

03
Mendicant Core, Guidelight

Mendicant Core, Guidelight

42.2% of decks · synergy 0.37

Mendicant Core, Guidelight rewards you for having lots of artifacts in play, and Simulacrum Synthesizer quietly expands that count turn over turn without requiring any additional mana investment beyond the initial cast.

04
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.34

Leonardo da Vinci wants a wide board of artifacts to copy and exploit, and Simulacrum Synthesizer provides that width passively — every spell you were casting anyway becomes a board presence.

05
Arcum Dagsson

Arcum Dagsson

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.34

Arcum Dagsson's activated ability requires sacrificing artifact creatures, and Simulacrum Synthesizer provides a renewable supply of them; the Constructs are never precious because the next spell is already making a replacement.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Simulacrum Synthesizer lives — games go long enough for the token accumulation to matter, artifact synergies are everywhere, and a four-mana enchantment that rewards you for just playing your deck fits the format's pacing. In competitive Modern and Pioneer artifact shells the card is technically castable, but four mana for a delayed payoff is too slow next to aggressive combo lines those formats demand. Standard legality is notable mostly because it opens up limited play and early deckbuilding, not because the card is pushing any Standard archetypes. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in four-mana enchantments that don't immediately win the game. Simulacrum Synthesizer is a Commander card in the truest sense — deep synergy reward, format speed that lets it breathe.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

203 decks
Chrome DomeSimulacrum SynthesizerKrark-Clan Ironworks

Chrome DomeSimulacrum SynthesizerKrark-Clan Ironworks

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite copies of artifacts you control with haste; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite scry 2

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If the price is the obstacle, Cyberdrive Awakener and Sai, Master Thopterist both produce tokens from artifact activity at a fraction of the cost, though neither scales the token size the way Simulacrum Synthesizer does — you trade the growing Constructs for cheaper, fixed-size fliers. Workshop Warchief is another option in token-focused artifact builds, giving you a body stapled to an anthem effect, but it lacks the repeatable generation that makes Simulacrum Synthesizer so hard to ignore over a long game.

Price Context

Current price

$27.38 premium tier

At $27.38, Simulacrum Synthesizer sits firmly in the premium tier — this is a card you're buying because nothing else does exactly what it does in artifact-heavy Commander builds, not because it's an incidental pickup. Inclusion rates above 50% in the most popular commanders that want it suggest demand isn't going anywhere, but as a rare from a high-supply set it has room to soften if reprints follow.

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