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The Cyber-Controller
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The Cyber-Controller

{X}{U}{U}{B}

Legendary Artifact Creature — Cyberman

When The Cyber-Controller enters, each opponent mills X cards. Put all creature cards milled this way onto the battlefield face down under your control. They're 2/2 Cyberman artifact creatures.

Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.

3 / 3

Mill
Set
Doctor Who (WHO #996)
Rarity
Rare
Mana value
3
Released
2023-10-13
Artist
Pavel Kolomeyets
EDHREC rank
#8,299
Colour identity
{B}{U}
Finishes
Foil
Served from
Local database

Commander bracket

1 +
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.

Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules

EDHREC

Salt Score 0.80
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Can be your commander

Combos 1

The Cyber-Controller+Urza, Lord High Artificer+Krark-Clan Ironworks+Mycosynth Golem+Mycosynth Lattice
{U}{B}
Near-infinite mill

Commander recommendations

Top synergy 50

Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.

  1. Etherium Sculptor 68 %+64.0 %
  2. Cyberman Patrol 59 %+58.7 %
  3. Foundry Inspector 60 %+55.8 %
  4. Cybermen Squadron 54 %+52.9 %
  5. Chief Engineer 51 %+50.5 %
  6. Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam 50 %+49.7 %
  7. Seat of the Synod 55 %+49.2 %
  8. Their Name Is Death 49 %+47.9 %
  9. Vault of Whispers 52 %+46.6 %
  10. Cyber Conversion 47 %+46.0 %
  11. Thran Dynamo 51 %+45.7 %
  12. Thought Monitor 49 %+45.7 %
  13. Master Transmuter 46 %+45.4 %
  14. Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge 46 %+43.7 %
  15. Thoughtcast 46 %+43.6 %
  16. Death in Heaven 44 %+43.4 %
  17. Archway of Innovation 46 %+43.2 %
  18. The Water Crystal 51 %+42.0 %
  19. Panharmonicon 43 %+39.2 %
  20. Ashnod's Altar 46 %+38.3 %
  21. Uthros, Titanic Godcore 39 %+37.0 %
  22. Steel Overseer 38 %+36.9 %
  23. Skorpekh Lord 37 %+36.9 %
  24. Urza, Lord High Artificer 39 %+36.4 %
  25. Mistvault Bridge 41 %+35.3 %
  26. Bruvac the Grandiloquent 41 %+35.0 %
  27. Crystal Shard 36 %+34.9 %
  28. Forsaken Monument 33 %+32.9 %
  29. Karn, Legacy Reforged 33 %+32.4 %
  30. Master of Etherium 34 %+32.0 %
  31. Cybership 32 %+31.9 %
  32. Solemn Simulacrum 44 %+31.8 %
  33. Ixidor, Reality Sculptor 31 %+31.1 %
  34. Palladium Myr 31 %+29.7 %
  35. Time Sieve 31 %+29.1 %
  36. Emry, Lurker of the Loch 33 %+28.8 %
  37. The Eternity Elevator 29 %+28.6 %
  38. Fabricate 32 %+28.3 %
  39. Darksteel Citadel 32 %+28.1 %
  40. Academy Ruins 33 %+28.0 %
  41. Cyberdrive Awakener 30 %+27.6 %
  42. Sai, Master Thopterist 31 %+27.5 %
  43. Mycosynth Golem 28 %+27.3 %
  44. Cryptothrall 28 %+27.2 %
  45. Basalt Monolith 28 %+26.7 %
  46. Chief of the Foundry 27 %+26.5 %
  47. Buried Ruin 29 %+26.0 %
  48. Krark-Clan Ironworks 27 %+26.0 %
  49. Desynchronization 27 %+25.6 %
  50. Vedalken Engineer 26 %+25.6 %

Most included 50

Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.

  1. Island 97 %+0.5 %
  2. Swamp 97 %+0.2 %
  3. Sol Ring 91 %+3.3 %
  4. Command Tower 86 %-1.5 %
  5. Arcane Signet 85 %+1.7 %
  6. Etherium Sculptor 68 %+64.0 %
  7. Talisman of Dominance 65 %+6.6 %
  8. Drowned Catacomb 61 %+5.3 %
  9. Foundry Inspector 60 %+55.8 %
  10. Cyberman Patrol 59 %+58.7 %
  11. Sunken Hollow 58 %-7.2 %
  12. Dimir Signet 57 %-1.0 %
  13. Seat of the Synod 55 %+49.2 %
  14. Cybermen Squadron 54 %+52.9 %
  15. Shipwreck Marsh 53 %+11.6 %
  16. Vault of Whispers 52 %+46.6 %
  17. Mind Stone 52 %+24.5 %
  18. Thran Dynamo 51 %+45.7 %
  19. Watery Grave 51 %+2.1 %
  20. The Water Crystal 51 %+42.0 %
  21. Chief Engineer 51 %+50.5 %
  22. Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam 50 %+49.7 %
  23. Their Name Is Death 49 %+47.9 %
  24. Counterspell 49 %-6.9 %
  25. Thought Monitor 49 %+45.7 %
  26. Cyber Conversion 47 %+46.0 %
  27. Thoughtcast 46 %+43.6 %
  28. Master Transmuter 46 %+45.4 %
  29. Archway of Innovation 46 %+43.2 %
  30. Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge 46 %+43.7 %
  31. Ashnod's Altar 46 %+38.3 %
  32. Death in Heaven 44 %+43.4 %
  33. Solemn Simulacrum 44 %+31.8 %
  34. Panharmonicon 43 %+39.2 %
  35. Darkwater Catacombs 43 %+4.0 %
  36. Bruvac the Grandiloquent 41 %+35.0 %
  37. Mistvault Bridge 41 %+35.3 %
  38. Underground River 40 %-1.6 %
  39. Thought Vessel 40 %+8.8 %
  40. Uthros, Titanic Godcore 39 %+37.0 %
  41. Urza, Lord High Artificer 39 %+36.4 %
  42. Choked Estuary 38 %-8.8 %
  43. Steel Overseer 38 %+36.9 %
  44. Skorpekh Lord 37 %+36.9 %
  45. Baleful Strix 37 %+13.2 %
  46. Feed the Swarm 37 %+2.1 %
  47. An Offer You Can't Refuse 37 %+4.2 %
  48. Reliquary Tower 36 %+0.3 %
  49. Crystal Shard 36 %+34.9 %
  50. Morphic Pool 35 %-0.8 %

Format legality

Rulings

  • 2023-10-13

    Double-faced permanents that are already on the battlefield can't be turned face down this way. However, a double-faced card can be put onto the battlefield face down from another zone this way.

  • 2023-10-13

    Each creature turned face down this way or put onto the battlefield this way is a 2/2 Cyberman artifact creature with no name and no color.

  • 2023-10-13

    If the face-down card has a morph ability, its controller may turn it face up by paying the associated morph cost.

  • 2023-10-13

    If, for any reason, the face-down creature is turned face up, the effect making it a Cyberman ends. It will be whatever is printed on the card.

  • 2023-10-13

    The player who controls a face-down permanent may look at it at any time. Notably, if the cards were put on the battlefield face down from another player's library, the player that owns them does not get to look at those cards.

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