Encroaching Mycosynth

Strategy & Gameplay

Encroaching Mycosynth is a versatile artifact that fundamentally transforms your deck-building approach by converting all your nonland permanents into artifacts while maintaining their original types. This innovative three-mana blue enchantment opens up entirely new strategic avenues by enabling synergies with artifact-focused mechanics that would otherwise be unavailable to many traditional strategies. The static ability applies not only to permanents already on the battlefield but also to permanent spells you're casting and cards in your hand, meaning you gain artifact synergies from the moment Encroaching Mycosynth enters play through the entire game. The card's power lies in its ability to bridge different deck archetypes and strategies. In artifact-heavy decks, it amplifies your existing synergies by including creatures, planeswalkers, and enchantments in your artifact count. This makes it particularly valuable in decks built around cards that reward you for controlling artifacts, such as those with affinity mechanics, artifact lords, or payoff cards that trigger when artifacts enter the battlefield. It slots naturally into Modern and Pioneer artifact strategies while also finding homes in Commander where it can generate explosive value with artifact synergies. Even in non-artifact-focused decks, Encroaching Mycosynth acts as a powerful bridge card that suddenly makes artifact-synergy cards viable inclusions. The card's legality across historic, timeless, pioneer, modern, legacy, and vintage formats means it has applications across nearly every competitive Magic environment, making it an excellent inclusion for players looking to explore creative deck-building possibilities.