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Empowered Autogenerator

This artifact enters tapped.
{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact. Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on this artifact.

The List

Commander 2019

Empowered Autogenerator enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Put a charge counter on Empowered Autogenerator. Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of charge counters on Empowered Autogenerator.

Empowered Autogenerator’s activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.