The Commander
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.)
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp into your 8-mana Spirit, then use its one indestructible counter to copy a high-impact permanent spell three times for a massive board or value swing. You spend the early game ramping and protecting yourself, then build around a single explosive copy trigger and grind value from there with the Myojin sitting on the board.
Strengths
- Copies any permanent spell (creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker) three times for one activation
- Mono-blue gives full access to counterspells, card draw, and ramp rocks
- Can generate four total copies of a bomb permanent for a game-ending tempo swing
- Enters indestructible, surviving most board wipes once it lands
Weaknesses
- The counter is single-use and only granted when cast from hand, so it's a one-shot effect
- Eight mana is steep and the commander does nothing the turn it lands without follow-up
- Removal that doesn't destroy (bounce, exile, -X/-X) easily handles the indestructible body
- Mono-blue lacks efficient creature removal and struggles against fast aggro
- Reliant on drawing a high-value permanent spell to copy or the ability fizzles
Key Cards
- Sol Ring — Critical acceleration toward the eight-mana commander and big permanent spells.
- Spark Double — Demonstrates the payoff—copying creatures and planeswalkers, and a copy effect you can stack with Myojin's.
- Mystic Remora — Cheap, repeatable card advantage that keeps your hand full of copy targets in mono-blue.
- Rite of Replication — Pairs perfectly to chain copies, and big permanent spells like this are exactly what Myojin wants to triple.
- Cyclonic Rift — Mono-blue's premier reset/finisher to protect your engine and clear blockers for the alpha strike.
- Heroic Intervention — Off-color-safe protection... in mono-blue lean on Swiftfoot Boots and counterspells to shield the commander before activating.
Upgrade Path
Push the ramp suite hard—Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Grim Monolith, and Thran Dynamo—so you can deploy Myojin plus a big copy target in the same turn. Add resilient copy targets that win on resolution and stack additional copy effects like Rite of Replication and Spark Double, while tightening interaction with Fierce Guardianship, Force of Negation, and Pact of Negation. Finally, include reanimation or recursion (Snapcaster-style value or flicker like Ghostly Flicker) to reuse Myojin and reset its counter via blink-and-recast lines.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Tripling a powerful creature spell (e.g. a finisher or evasive threat) for a lethal swing
- ▸Copying a value or token engine three times to snowball an unbeatable board
- ▸Cyclonic Rift overload followed by a copied threat alpha strike
- ▸Grinding incremental card advantage and copies until opponents are overwhelmed
Archetypes
- Clone/Copy Value — Myojin triples any permanent spell, turning a single bomb into an overwhelming board state.
- Ramp Big-Mana — The eight-mana cost and desire to cast huge permanents reward heavy artifact and ritual ramp.
- Control — Mono-blue counters and bounce protect your slow gameplan until the explosive copy turn.
- Token Swarm — Copying a token-generating or wide creature spell three times creates an instant army.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (U), by popularity.
