Mindless Automaton
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact Creature — Construct
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 0
- Set
- Tempest Remastered #227 (rare)
This creature enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
{1}, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove two +1/+1 counters from this creature: Draw a card.
Mindless Automaton has 7 printings, first in Exodus (1998). EDHREC ranks it #4,834 among Commander cards. It appears most in Kilo, Apogee Mind decks (7,035 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Mindless Automaton
- Call for Backup - March of the Machine Commander, led by Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener
- Counter Intelligence - Edge of Eternities Commander Deck, led by Kilo, Apogee Mind
Commanders that run Mindless Automaton most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Kilo, Apogee Mind: 7,035 decks
- Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker: 2,028 decks
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate: 1,076 decks
- Hamza, Guardian of Arashin: 999 decks
- Bright-Palm, Soul Awakener: 592 decks
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus: 337 decks
- Halana and Alena, Partners: 285 decks
- Zimone, Paradox Sculptor: 222 decks
Often played with Mindless Automaton
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If removing two +1/+1 counters from Mindless Automaton causes the amount of damage already marked on Mindless Automaton to be equal to or greater than its toughness, it will be put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action before the ability can be activated again and before the card is drawn.