Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, the rules-focused Q&A Wizards did in this subreddit. It gains indestructible until end of turn. The merged permanent then has both the creature type and power and toughness of the card on top. If a creature dies while Titan Hunter's triggered ability is on the stack, Titan Hunter won't deal damage to that player. So it doesnt matter which creatures name is on top. 2. If they want to avoid this, then they have to destroy the creature in response to you mutating onto it. In this instance youre just reset in terms of time and mana spent; you dont lose anything to the graveyard. If your life total is brought to 0 or less at the same time that a creature with a bounty counter on it is dealt lethal damage, you lose the game before the last ability goes on the stack. The key difference here is theres no colon between the mana cost and what it does, just the word mutate and then the cost. Home; Themes; Mutate; Five-Color; Five-Color Mutate Theme. While it may be your first thought that those abilities wouldnt work if the creatures name changes because of a mutation, it actually does. Whereas Bestow is more expensive due to the creature that remains, Mutate has lower costs and tends to award compounding mutations. Only the player Capricopian is attacking may activate this ability and only during the declare attackers step. Crystalline Resonance's copy effect wears off immediately before your next turn begins. Activating Zirda's last ability after a creature has blocked won't remove the blocking creature from combat or cause the creature it blocked to become unblocked. align-items: center; If either target becomes illegal before Inspired Ultimatum resolves, the other will be affected as appropriate and you'll draw five cards. Mutating the enchanted creature won't cause it to gain abilities. Commander is played with vintage legal cards, with some exceptions: cards are legal as of their set's prerelease. If it's not, the spell ceases to be a mutating creature spell. It will be good enough if you gain control of one artifact with Souvenir Snatcher, but why stop there? No colon, no activation. .scgtour-ad { How does mutate work with temporary creatures such as Treetop Village? From there, some buffs on Snapdax can make it lethal pretty quickly with double striking commander damage. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won't get +X/+X. Batch split images vertically in half, sequentially numbering the output files. If a creature card in a player's library or a creature on the battlefield has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. Only one creature is required to block the enchanted creature. Certainly the narrowest of them all, Otrimi still has some intriguing possibilities. Activated abilities contain a colon. Its controller chooses to put the resolving mutating creature spell on top of its target or underneath it. When you discard a nonland card this way, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and you pick a target to be dealt damage. If the target noncreature permanent is an illegal target by the time Sawtusk Demolisher's last ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. If that creature card has flash, you'll be able to cast it any time you could cast an instant, even on an opponent's turn. You won't draw a card. Escape Protocol's triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game. As if I need a reason to build another one. If Jirina is your commander, the number of times you cast it includes the time you cast Jirina just before it entered the battlefield. Molten Echoes{2}{R}{R}EnchantmentAs Molten Echoes enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.Whenever a nontoken creature of the chosen type enters the battlefield under your control, create a token that's a copy of that creature. When Jake isn't at his LGS he can be found on MTG Arena where he's usually forcing blue in draft. The converted mana cost of a strive spell doesn't change no matter how many targets it has. Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a Human you control may become lethal if General Kudro leaves the battlefield during that turn. Chittering Harvester{5}{B}Creature Nightmare4/6Mutate {4}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. You won't gain 2 life. Even if using an alternative cost to cast a spell, additional costs must still be payed. Only creatures are Humans. You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy created by Kalamax's first ability. When you discard a nonland card this way, Narset of the Ancient Way deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to target creature or planeswalker.6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this emblem deals 2 damage to any target.". We've added a "Necessary cookies only" option to the cookie consent popup. text-decoration: none; Skycat Sovereign{W}{U}Creature Elemental Cat1/1FlyingSkycat Sovereign gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with flying. Yes. Will of the All-Hunter{1}{W}InstantTarget creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Im not a fan of the for each time this creature has mutated clause. Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. If you exile your entire library without exiling a creature card, you put the library back in a random order and continue. The ability that defines Boneyard Mycodrax's power and toughness works in all zones, not just on the battlefield. Put two of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. While that ability is resolving, you may pay {1}. This discounts all your creatures, all while becoming a terrifying threat once it starts mutating frequently. {T}: Kelsien deals 1 damage to target creature you don't control. You can up the value by putting it into a deck that likes sacrifice, such as Thraximundar. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. It continues to resolve as a normal creature spell and, A mutating creature spell that resolves doesn't enter the battlefield. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast{3}{R}{R}Legendary Planeswalker Lukka5+1: Exile the top three cards of your library. If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. Vadrok, Apex of Thunder{U}{R}{W}Legendary Creature Elemental Dinosaur Cat3/3Mutate {1}{w/u}{R}{R} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. Id want to do something with Increasing Vengeance copying a big X-spell, which weve cast off the top of the library with help from Melek, Izzet Paragon. It requires a target. When you do, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and you pick a target to fight. [2][3][4][5] It allows two or more permanents to merge. If a mutated creature is destroyed, then every creature that has mutated with it will also b destroyed. What makes Otrimi, The Ever-Playful great is when it deals combat damage to a player, you can return a creature with mutate from your graveyard to your hand. For example, if players A and B each control a Chevill and player A has put a bounty counter on player C's creature, player B's Chevill won't put a counter on anything and both players will gain 3 life and draw a card when that creature dies. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. You may choose new targets for the copy.Whenever you copy an instant spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Kalamax. Some keyword abilities are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. You can cast Voracious Greatshark without a target for its enters-the-battlefield triggered ability. Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you'll put one of them into its owner's graveyard. Mutate is an MTG mechanic that was introduced in Ikoria: Lair of the Behemoths. If a merged creature is put into a library, its owner chooses the relative order of those cards. Its middle ability won't have any effect, but its last ability certainly will. If this happens, then the creature on the stack that you cast for its Mutate cost will still enter the battlefield. Because it's a loyalty ability, Narset's first ability isn't a mana ability. If Exuberant Wolfbear leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, use its power and toughness as it last existed on the battlefield to determine the Human's new base power and toughness. If there are no other players left in the game, the game is a draw. If an ability triggers when a creature mutates and counts how many times that creature has mutated, it includes the time that caused the ability to trigger. Being able to combine creatures like a mad scientist and creature unstable combinations that do too much for one permanent is as creative as it is powerful. But make sure youre not setting yourself up for failure when a removal spell comes down on your monstrosity. Titan Hunter's triggered ability triggers at the beginning of each player's end step, including yours, if no creatures died during that turn. But countering isnt always the most efficient way to remove mutated creatures because of the nature of the mechanic. Put that card onto the battlefield or into your hand. Maybe my favorite new Cat Nightmare (Nightmare Cat has better rhythm to me, but I understand theres some sort of pecking order to be maintained). Click on the appropriate button depending on which creature you want to be on top. You check once for each keyword. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. Facet Reader{1}{U}Creature Human Wizard1/2{1}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. "Mutate [cost]" means "You may pay [cost] rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Nethroi, Apex Of Death can trigger this effect multiple times since green, black, and white generally have the cheapest mutate creatures, and Nethroi's ability triggers whenever it mutates, not just when it's cast. text-align:center; The reflexive triggered ability will still trigger if you discard a nonland card. Theres a lot of confusion regarding targeting, what happens to merged creatures, and plenty of other interactions. Insatiable Hemophage{3}{B}Creature Nightmare3/3Mutate {2}{B} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. If there's a cost associated with blocking the enchanted creature, the defending player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to be blocked in that case either. A Commander deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the Commander. Its owner must pay for each time it was previously cast from the command zone; this is an additional cost. The value of X is determined only as the triggered ability resolves. Draftsim.com is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Huntmaster Liger's triggered ability affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. This can be any non-Human creature that you own. Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to Skycat Sovereign may become lethal if other creatures with flying you control leave the battlefield during that turn. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. If Lavabrink Venturer somehow has no choice made for its ability, its last ability grants it no protection abilities. When a mutated creature dies, do they unmutate or are they still connected? You won't lose the game if your life total is 0 in between these two events. Then return a creature card with lesser converted mana cost than the creature that died from your graveyard to your hand. As future sets are released, updates to the Magic rules may cause some of this information to become outdated. Supertypes (such as legendary) and subtypes (such as Giant) are not. Static abilities, such as that of Glorious Anthem, modify Ravenous Gigantotherium's power before its triggered ability is put onto the stack. Verge Rangers doesn't allow you to play additional lands. Since Sanctuary Lockdown's activated ability doesn't have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven't been under your control since your most recent turn began to pay the cost. There it is, everything you could possibly want to know about the mutate keyword. display: flex; Effects that reduce the generic mana cost of a spell (such as that of Umori) can't reduce that spell's colored mana requirements. )When Ravenous Gigantotherium enters the battlefield, it deals X damage divided as you choose among up to X target creatures, where X is its power. The target creatures and planeswalkers will be unable to attack, block, or have their abilities activated even if the damage that would be dealt to them is prevented. Zaxara, the Exemplary{1}{B}{G}{U}Legendary Creature Nightmare Hydra2/3Deathtouch{T}: Add two mana of any one color.Whenever you cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, create a 0/0 green Hydra creature token, then put X +1/+1 counters on it. border: 2px solid #005586; Then put the exiled cards that weren't cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.). You can't cast it multiple times. Bonder's Ornament{3}Artifact{T}: Add one mana of any color. Psychic Impetus{2}{U}Enchantment AuraEnchant creatureEnchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. You can't choose different ones. Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by Mythos of Vadrok. Genesis Ultimatum{G}{G}{U}{U}{U}{R}{R}SorceryLook at the top five cards of your library. One of those colors also likes putting stuff into the graveyard. It doesn't have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker that Fireflux Squad or the exiled creature was attacking. Skycat Sovereign's first ability applies only while it's on the battlefield. Nesting GroundsLand{T}: Add {C}. Shuffle that card into your library. I got it. The Comprehensive Rules also say: text that refers to the object its on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name. You can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. Notably, opponents can't try to change whether you control a creature with power 4 or greater. If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Flame Spill tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. Swallow Whole{W}SorceryAs an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped creature you control.Exile target tapped creature. The Commander variant requires exactly one hundred cards, so Yorion can never be your chosen companion in a Commander game. If you cast a mutating creature spell, you must choose a target for it before the triggered ability from Vivien's last ability puts a creature onto the battlefield. If Kelsien leaves the battlefield, you keep any experience counters you've received. They aren't legal for play in the Standard, Pioneer, or Modern formats. Its a small thing, but I like playing cards that give creatures to other players alongside Suture Priest. The creature card that Nascent Metamorph becomes a copy of is put onto the bottom of the library along with any other cards. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. The only thing that carries across all creatures are the abilities of all the mutated permanents in the pile. The first card youll want to put into your Brokkos deck is River Kelpie. While resolving Escape Protocol's triggered ability, you can't pay {1} multiple times to exile multiple permanents you control. For example, if a creature fights while enchanted by Solid Footing, that creature will deal damage equal to its power, not its toughness. There are two ways to cast creature cards with mutate: Cast the spell for its mana cost. Sure, youre only getting back a permanent, but its in colors that really like permanents. Agitator Ant{2}{R}Creature Insect2/2At the beginning of your end step, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. Once you've activated the last ability of Bonders' Enclave, it doesn't check again at any point whether you control a creature with power 4 or greater. Mutate is never going to be a dominant mechanic in Commander. It has low power so it doesnt take up too much room but has a wide range of targets to destroy. If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. Blisterspit Gremlin{R}Creature Gremlin1/1{1}, {T}: Blisterspit Gremlin deals 1 damage to each opponent.Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, untap Blisterspit Gremlin. They may have any converted mana cost. Emergent Ultimatum is still on the stack while you cast the cards you found, so those spells could target it. A colorless card isn't monocolored. Note that the target player searches their library (which may be affected by effects such as that of Stranglehold) and that the card they find is revealed, even though these words aren't included in the ability's reminder text. Once Souvenir Snatcher has snatched a noncreature artifact, you'll continue to control that artifact if it becomes an artifact creature. The control-change effect of Souvenir Snatcher lasts indefinitely. Labyrinth Raptor's second and third abilities apply to itself as long as it still has menace. The merged creature is the same creature it was before the merge, so any Auras or counters that were on it remain on it, it remains tapped if it was tapped, it's still attacking if it was attacking, and so on. Get his insights and latest list. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. If you put a third counter on it some other way, it won't be immediately sacrificed. Among the keywords that a keyword counter can grant, multiple instances of any one of these keywords are redundant. color: #005586; The second ability represented by the "partner with [name]" keyword modifies the rules for deck construction in the Commander variant and has no function outside of that variant. The following is the official banned list for commander games. Parcelbeast's effect doesn't count as playing a land. Archipelagore{5}{U}{U}Creature Leviathan7/7Mutate {5}{U} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. It might be the weakest of the cards on the list because its power and toughness arent compelling enough to make it the top creature, but it also doesnt have any evasion abilities. If another player gains control of Mindleecher, that player can't look at or play the cards, and you still can. (You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.). Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. Mutate is a keyword that was introduced in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and somewhat resembles auras or the bestow mechanic from Theros. You must tap exactly one creature to cast Swallow Whole; you can't cast it without tapping a creature, and you can't tap additional creatures. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. If you do, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. )Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent discards a card. If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability, you can't look at the new top card until you finish doing so. There are also unique interactions with cards during mutations that give you bonus effects every time a permanent mutates, which can get out of control very quickly. Tayam, Luminous Enigma{1}{W}{B}{G}Legendary Creature Nightmare Beast3/3Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional vigilance counter on it. If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, such as by being created as a token, the Aura's controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. Reselecting which player a creature is attacking ignores all requirements, restrictions, and costs associated with attacking. First, you have to choose which order youll stack the creatures. Monstrous Step{4}{G}SorceryTarget creature gets +7/+7 until end of turn. Vadrok, Apex Of Thunder is the perfect mix of a mutate commander and a spellslinger one. If you've cycled a card named Yidaro, Wandering Monster four or more times this game, put it onto the battlefield from your graveyard instead. For each creature card exiled with Lukka's first ability, you can cast it as long as you control any Lukka planeswalker, not just the one that exiled the card. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy. If you have two creature cards with flying in your graveyard, you put just one flying counter on a creature you control, not two. If it's not, the spell ceases to be a mutating creature spell. You can target yourself as the player to gain 5 life. It will then deal 4 damage to the blocking creature and 2 damage to the defending player. Not all of Ikoria's flora and fauna are out to get you. If the token isn't a creature immediately after it enters the battlefield, the granted ability won't trigger. Vadrok, Apex Of Thunder is in Jeskai (blue/red/white) colors, allowing you to play some of the best spells to cheat out. Mana produced by Titans' Nest can be used to cast a spell that has {X} in an additional or alternative cost. )Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent sacrifices a creature. To move a counter from one creature to another, the counter is removed from the first permanent and put on the second. As this happens, the controller of the mutating creature spell chooses whether to put it on top of the target creature or on bottom. Building up a massive, merged creature that does a dozen other things whenever it mutates can easily lock your opponent out of the game, flood the board with more permanents, or simply grow big enough to smash with damage. This will give the creature the abilities of all creatures that are beneath it as well as what it already has. If the creature stops being a creature, loses its abilities, or loses its +1/+1 counters, it will continue to be monstrous. After the token is on the battlefield but before any player can take actions, +1/+1 counters are put onto the token. Matt Morgan May 7, 2021 The Summer of Legend. Winota, Joiner of Forces{2}{R}{W}Legendary Creature Human Warrior4/4Whenever a non-Human creature you control attacks, look at the top six cards of your library. Wizards of the Coast LLC. Monstrous isn't an ability that a creature has. Lets take a look at some of the more crazy ones. A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card. It can't be put in the middle. Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. You can remove any three counters to activate Tayam's last ability, not just vigilance counters. "But what happens when it gets blinked?" you ask. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy. Rielle, the Everwise{1}{U}{R}Legendary Creature Human Wizard0/3Rielle, the Everwise gets +1/+0 for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.Whenever you discard one or more cards for the first time each turn, draw that many cards. Having worked many odd jobs, including article writing, he is now a list writer for TheGamer.com. Youre not the owner of the creature (just controller), so you cant mutate on it. Once you've determined how much damage is excess, the creature you control simultaneously deals damage to the creature and to its controller. If {R}{G} was spent to cast the spell, the token has the extra ability. A merged creature can't be split apart until it leaves the battlefield. Any "As [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[This permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied permanent will also work. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game. )Ukkima, Stalking Shadow can't be blocked.When Ukkima leaves the battlefield, it deals X damage to target player and you gain X life, where X is its power. The converted mana cost of a token that isn't a copy of another object is 0. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game. .decklist-database-area a.deck-button:visited{ If the target creature is an illegal target when Surly Badgersaur's last ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn't resolve. Are there tables of wastage rates for different fruit and veg? Your minimum deck size is forty cards for Limited events (such as Booster Draft and Sealed Deck) and sixty cards for Constructed events (such as Standard or casual freeform play). Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield don't trigger. Mutate was first referred to on the silver-bordered card Surgeon General Commander in Unsanctioned. If the copied permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. Adding reach and trample to an even larger creature provides you with some serious beatstick capability. The affected creature doesn't lose any abilities when it becomes a Serpent. Sultai 3288 decks. The "commander tax" increases based on how many times a commander was cast from the command zone. When the card returns to the battlefield, it will be a new object with no connection to the card that was exiled. In a Two-Headed Giant game, Slitherwisp's last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you to draw one card. How does Infinite Reflection work with Commander and commander damage? Lots of combo potential here. Necessary cookies can be opted out through your browser settings. Ukkima, Stalking Shadow{1}{U}{B}Legendary Creature Whale Wolf2/2Partner with Cazur, Ruthless Stalker (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Cazur into their hand from their library, then shuffle. Theres room for brewing something extraordinarily different. Sometimes the creature you are using as a Mutate target becomes an illegal target while your Mutate spell is on the stack. Note the specific wording of the oracle text here; this ability triggers whenever the creature mutates which means you could repeatedly bring creatures back from the grave. Then Ill break down some ideas on decks for each of the potential commanders. This is the creature's toughness minus the amount of damage that it already has marked on it, but ignoring any replacement or prevention effects that will modify this damage. Does the mutate cost get affected by commander tax? Toothy, Imaginary Friend and Pir, Imaginative Rascal fit right into the theme as well (although Pir is a Human and cant be mutated).
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