First printed in The Brothers' War Commander (2022)
All 4 prints
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Sorcery
Choose target artifact creature you control. For each creature chosen this way, create a token that's a copy of it.
Overload 
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
- Illustrated by
- Ben Wootten
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (11)
- Overload doesn’t change when you can cast the spell.
- If you don’t pay the overload cost of a spell, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won’t have any targets.
- Each token copies exactly what was printed on the original artifact creature and nothing more (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below. It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on.
- If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to pay its overload cost instead.
- If the copied artifact creature has
in its mana cost, X is 0. - Casting a spell with overload doesn’t change that spell’s mana cost. You just pay the overload cost instead.
- Because a spell with overload doesn’t target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
- If the chosen artifact creature is itself a token, the token March of Progress creates copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created that token.
- Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied artifact creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
- If the chosen artifact creature is copying something else, then the token enters the battlefield as whatever the chosen creature is copying.
- Effects that cause you to pay more or less for a spell will cause you to pay that much more or less while casting it for its overload cost, too.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.76 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
