| Name | Machinesmith Automaton  |
|---|---|
| Type | Artifact creature — robot villain |
| Description | Trample Whenever another artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. |
| Flavor | "Every day, I find new ways to improve upon my designs. This is the inherent superiority of metal over flesh and blood." —Machinesmith, Samuel Saxon |
| Artist | Wero Gallo |
| Set | Marvel Super Heroes #144 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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Machinesmith Automaton, Artifact creature — robot villain, designed by Wero Gallo first released in Jun, 2026 in the set Marvel Super Heroes.
Machinesmith Automaton would fit best in an aggressive or midrange red-based artifact deck—especially one that can consistently flood the battlefield with cheap artifacts or artifact tokens (such as Treasure, Clue, Blood, Servo, or Thopter tokens), allowing it to grow quickly while leveraging trample to push damage through blockers. It would synergize well in artifact-aggro, modular, or go-wide artifact builds, particularly in formats like Commander or casual artifact shells, but at three mana in red it competes with very strong options; cards like **Reckless Fireweaver** (for direct damage), **Ingenious Artillerist**, **Arcbound Ravager**, **Steel Overseer**, or even **Urza’s Saga**-based artifact engines often provide either faster scaling, immediate impact, or combo potential. Compared to those, Machinesmith Automaton is more of a snowball threat that needs board development to shine, so while it could see play in a dedicated artifact-swarm deck, it is unlikely to be competitive in
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