I was wondering how the Amass mechanic on cards like Herald of the Dreadhorde works with cards like Conspiracy. when the token enters the battlefield, Conspiracy changes the type. Does the token still get the counters since the creature is no longer an Army? I am still confused with the layers.
No. With Conspiracy on the field under your control not naming "Army" (but something else), you'll not have an army on the field ever. Because Conspiracy overwrites all previous creature types. All your creatures on the field are not armies, and any new creature will not be an army either, this goes for the token created by the Amass mechanic as well. Every permanent starts out with its default characteristics. For a permanent represented by a card, that's what printed on it; for a token, that's what it is created with. There is only one layer effect here, Conspiracy, which naturally means, it is applied last. So you'll simply have no Army creature to put counters on.
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