If you return two creature cards, you may put one counter on each or put both counters on one. Some cards, like Bristling Boar, refer to themselves in their oracle text. However if you mutate something under a Vampire, then it would still be a Vampire, and it would get the buff. Since casting your Commander for its Mutate cost is still considered a casting cost, Commander Tax still applies. You can use this in combination with a card like Impact Tremors for a crazy combo win! You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities under it.). If a card has more than one of the listed keywords, you pick which keyword you're choosing it for. This means that it works perfectly with mutate. In case you're asking a rules question about them: check out the mechanics article, and the rules-focused Q&A Wizards did in this subreddit. Verge Rangers doesn't allow you to play additional lands. If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can only include cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders' combined color identities. To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Cunning Nightbonder). If you cast one permanent spell from your graveyard and then have a new Lurrus come under your control in the same turn, you may cast another permanent spell from your graveyard that turn. Spellpyre Phoenix's last ability checks the entire turn. Tentative Connection is unaffected if you no longer control a creature with menace after you've cast it. You choose which player or planeswalker the new creature is attacking. It's just something true about that creature. If the target spell has a variable number of targets, you can't change how many targets it has. Several cards appearing in these decks let you rile up a creature, whipping it into a frenzied attack in some other player's direction. 1x Endless Sands. Between Ikoria and Commander 2020, there are six of them. As the triggered ability resolves, first the next opponent in turn order (or, if it's an opponent's turn, the opponent whose turn it is) chooses a creature they control, then each other opponent in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. ." If the target opponent has no creature cards in their library, Nascent Metamorph doesn't become a copy of anything. Im quite fond of both of my Queen Marchesa decks. If that creature is already untapped at the beginning of its controller's next untap step, the effect won't do anything. If Crystalline Giant has one of the listed keywords but not because of a counter of that kind, that kind of counter is still eligible to be chosen at random. Aside from video games, he also has an avid interest in trading card games, namely Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic the Gathering. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. Vulpikeet{3}{W}Creature Fox Bird2/3Mutate {2}{W} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. Clash of Titans can target two creatures controlled by the same player. For spells with {X} in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's converted mana cost. If it's a land card, you may put it onto the battlefield. and what would happen then? In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. Use the power of the creature cards as they exist in your graveyard to determine whether they can be the targets of Nethroi's triggered ability. It won't deal damage to any player. Yannik can be the target of its own reflexive triggered ability. But heres hoping we get some new mutators soon! To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Gust of Wind). Channeled Force{2}{U}{R}InstantAs an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards.Target player draws X cards. How can I use it? To make it into the Top 10, a card had to be broadly useful. Although the Human is an attacking creature, it was never declared as an attacking creature. Land (36) 1x Blighted Woodland. Huntmaster Liger{3}{W}Creature Cat3/4Mutate {2}{W} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. Put a +1/+1 counter on Stormwild Capridor for each 1 damage prevented this way. Certain variants may have other minimums. After you've drawn, the appropriate creatures are all simultaneously returned to their owners' hands. If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents who hasn't goaded it. It still has all of the characteristics of the topmost object, which may cause it to be a creature or to not be a creature, and it has all of the abilities of its other cards. You may put that card into your graveyard.Exile a card from your graveyard: Add {C}. The leads us down a whole flashback line, which probably includes Snapcaster Mage. There it is, everything you could possibly want to know about the mutate keyword. in that players may take actions after you've paid mana but before damage is dealt. If you cast an instant spell before Kalamax becomes tapped, its first ability won't trigger when you cast your second. Surly Badgersaur{3}{R}Creature Badger Dinosaur3/3Whenever you discard a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Surly Badgersaur.Whenever you discard a land card, create a Treasure token. Wrath of God kills two individual creatures or one stack just the same. As your next turn begins, all instances of the ability will wear off at the same time. If the target Human is an illegal target by the time Kogla's last ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. Bonders' EnclaveLand{T}: Add {C}. text-align:center; Card types such as artifact and supertypes such as legendary can't be chosen. Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. Knowing what that card is becomes part of the information you have access to, just like you can look at the cards in your hand. margin-bottom: 1em; That ability will simply not happen. Click on the appropriate button depending on which creature you want to be on top. Heroic is a keyword ability that was introduced in Theros. While it might not seek to become the monarch (although its not outside the realm of reasonable possibilities), Snapdax wants to be dealing combat damage in an environment where not too many opposing creatures are around to do so. If the artifact's owner leaves the game, that artifact leaves with them. A spell or ability that counters spells can still target spells with flash you cast. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn't target anything (so it could be attached to an opponent's permanent with hexproof, for example), but the Aura's enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. Effectively exiling the other creatures because they're no longer part of the commander? If this spell is copied and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. Proud Wildbonder's last ability applies to itself as long as it still has trample. Creatures that are merged count as one creature and can include tokens. Kiki-Jiki is an enabler of combos across many formats, and it also combos with any of the NonLegendary Mutate Creatures that Ikoria has to offer. If the target creature is an illegal target when Surly Badgersaur's last ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn't resolve. Luminous Broodmoth{2}{W}{W}Creature Insect3/4FlyingWhenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it. The mutation trigger and static sizing is something Mutate shares with Emerge. Players can cast spells and activate abilities after the triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does. Gyruda, Doom of Depths{4}{u/b}{u/b}Legendary Creature Demon Kraken6/6Companion Your starting deck contains only cards with even converted mana costs. Mutating the enchanted creature won't cause it to gain abilities. It gains indestructible until end of turn. Brokkos, Apex Of Forever is in Sultai (black/green/blue) which allows you to play some of the strongest mutate creatures. If an effect says that an opponent may cast a spell during your turn, Tidal Barracuda's restriction overrules that permission. You choose the two target permanents as Nesting Grounds's second ability is put onto the stack. If the card copied by the token had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created. If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can't remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn't resolve. The creatures targeted by Ravenous Gigantotherium's ability deal damage back to Ravenous Gigantotherium before dying if they're dealt lethal damage. If the affected creature gains an ability after Mystic Subdual becomes attached to it, it will keep that ability. Regal Leosaur{R}{W}Creature Dinosaur Cat2/2Mutate {1}{r/w}{r/w} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. One goes on top, one on bottomyour choice. If the token isn't a creature immediately after it enters the battlefield, the granted ability won't trigger. Manascape Refractor{3}ArtifactManascape Refractor enters the battlefield tapped.Manascape Refractor has all activated abilities of all lands on the battlefield.You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to pay the activation costs of Manascape Refractor's abilities. If a spell is being copied more than once, you can even have the additional copy put onto the stack in between the original copies. No colon, no activation. Toothy, Imaginary Friend and Pir, Imaginative Rascal fit right into the theme as well (although Pir is a Human and cant be mutated). Then each nonland permanent not chosen is sacrificed at the same time. Cookie Notice You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. As Agitator Ant's ability resolves, first you choose which creature you control, if any, to put two +1/+1 counters on, then each other player in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Changelings are creatures that have all possible creature types at once. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put X +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous. You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. .decklist-database-area a.deck-button:hover{ Heroic is an incredible ability to have on your creature, especially if your deck revolves around triggering mutate since heroic goes off as well. A mutating creature spell is a creature spell, even if it won't enter the battlefield as a creature. )MenaceSacrifice a Human: Put a +1/+1 counter on Silvar, Devourer of the Free. As Mythos of Snapdax resolves, first you choose which permanents you control won't be sacrificed, then each other player in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. If the creature you control has trample, excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead. Bonder's Ornament{3}Artifact{T}: Add one mana of any color. Of One Mind is unaffected if you no longer control a Human and non-Human creature after you've cast it. It's not an alternative cost to cast the spell. It the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack an opposing planeswalker (controlled by any opponent) or a player who goaded it. (Zero is even.). Vitality Hunter{3}{W}Creature Nightmare3/4Lifelink{X}{W}{W}: Monstrosity X. 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. Once you announce that you're activating the last ability of Bonders' Enclave, no player may take actions until you've finished activating it. If there are no other players left in the game, you win the game. If the target creature is an illegal target by the time The Ozolith's last ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. In the end, the very low mutate cost appealed to me. Activated abilities contain a colon. Add {U}, {R}, or {W}. If Species Specialist happens to have the chosen creature type, its ability triggers when it dies. If the Aura can't legally be attached to anything, it remains in its current zone. Its certainly not a play pattern that interests me, but there are a fair number of folks who enjoy it, so I figured its worth mentioning. If youre playing a Sultai deck, King Macar, the Gold-Cursed is the one youll want. If any one card has the same symbol twice, such as {X}{X}{R} or {r/g}{r/g}, the companion condition isn't satisfied. On the other hand, gaining haste after the token has been created is not a copiable value. It won't trigger when the third or fourth card is drawn. If the target creature is an illegal target when the reflexive triggered ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn't resolve. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. Go to Magic.Wizards.com/Commander for more information on the Commander variant. Hopefully this answers any other questions you had about Mutate. } For example, if a merged creature containing three cards dies, one creature died and three cards were put into a player's graveyard. If a spell or ability causes an opponent to put cards into their hand without specifically using the word "draw," it's not a card drawn. If the amount of damage Xyris deals is greater than the number of cards in your library and the number of cards in that player's library, you both lose the game at the same time. Shiny Impetus causes you to create a Treasure token, not the attacking creature's controller. The ability triggered whenever the creature was targeted by a spell you controlled. Does a Mutated Commander Still Count as a Commander? It shares Bestow's bonus of allowing a mutator to enter the battlefield in the case of invalid targets, but like Augmented creatures, the entire stack of mutates will change zones together. You don't have to cycle the same physical card four times for Yidaro to get tired of being cycled and stomp onto the battlefield. Mutate is a mechanic thats as good as you make it. Cryptic Trilobite{X}{X}Creature Trilobite0/0Cryptic Trilobite enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.Remove a +1/+1 counter from Cryptic Trilobite: Add {C}{C}. Once you do, it comes into the game and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. In the Commander variant, if a commander is part of a merged creature, the resulting creature is a commander. max-width:100%; So I have a creature that is already mutated. Allowing your opponent to mutate first and then using a kill spell is always at least a 2-for-1, maybe more. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. Any Equipment will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Mutate in MTG: Rules, History, and Best Cards. Necropanther{1}{W}{B}Creature Cat Nightmare3/3Mutate {2}{w/b}{w/b} (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. Call the Coppercoats{2}{W}InstantStrive This spell costs {1}{W} more to cast for each target beyond the first.Choose any number of target opponents. Excess damage is dealt to that creature's controller instead. If Death's Oasis becomes a creature, activating its last ability will cause its first ability to trigger. There are certainly any number of loops that would have you casting Boneyard Lurker again and again, like in a Karador, Ghost Chieftain deck. As you cast Back for More, it targets only a creature card in your graveyard. Kaheera, the Orphanguard{1}{g/w}{g/w}Legendary Creature Cat Beast3/2Companion Each creature card in your starting deck is a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast card. You gain 2 life when Essence Symbiote's ability resolves, even if you can't put a +1/+1 counter on the mutated creature (most likely because it's left the battlefield). For determining the interaction of continuous effects, the timestamp of a keyword counter on an object is the most recent time that any counter of that kind was put on that object. Lets take a look at some of the more crazy ones. If the copied card has an ability that defines its power or toughness, that ability isn't copied. We get the chain started with cards like Roaring Primadox and Stampeding Wildebeests, and then get repeated value out of the first two, who trigger when they leave the battlefield. But thats just me. Mutate is a keyword that lets you cast a spell for its mutate cost, placing it either under or on top of a non-Human creature. .decklist-database-area a.deck-button div.decklist-button-text{ If you don't put the top card of your library onto the battlefield, you put it into your hand without revealing it. )FlyingWhenever this creature mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on it. font-size: 3em; If there's a cost associated with having it attack, the player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either. Pollywog Symbiote{1}{U}Creature Frog1/3Each creature spell you cast costs {1} less to cast if it has mutate.Whenever you cast a creature spell, if it has mutate, draw a card, then discard a card. Honorable Mentions: Cloudpiercer, Dreamtail Heron, Pouncing Shoreshark, Sea-Dasher Octopus. Abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield don't trigger. You won't have the option to put a card on the bottom of your library. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities under it.. Notably, they can't try to remove the commander you control to make you pay its cost. Offspring's Revenge{2}{R}{W}{B}EnchantmentAt the beginning of combat on your turn, exile target red, white, or black creature card from your graveyard. text-decoration: none; It wont be good just thrown in as is; it grows in power based on how you build around it and work for it. Parcelbeast's effect doesn't count as playing a land. )DeathtouchWhenever this creature mutates, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated. The value of X is locked in as you divide the damage while putting Ravenous Gigantotherium's ability onto the stack. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it. Merged permanents are cards that have been put together via the mutate mechanic and are placed on top of one another. If there's a cost associated with having it block the creature, the player isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to block in that case either. If the copied permanent is itself a token, the token created by Mythos of Illuna copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it. This is different from effects that say "If you do . Triggered abilities (starting with "when," "whenever," or "at") are unaffected by Mythos of Vadrok. Slippery Bogbonder{3}{G}Creature Human Druid3/3FlashHexproofWhen Slippery Bogbonder enters the battlefield, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. 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). This will give the creature the abilities of all creatures that are beneath it as well as what it already has. No, its not. Start with the amount of damage being dealt to the creature and determine what is "lethal." Put a menace counter on a creature you control. If another permanent becomes a copy of Crystalline Resonance, it will become whatever Crystalline Resonance is copying and it will also have its ability. If Nascent Metamorph becomes a copy of a legendary card with the same name as a legendary permanent you control, you'll put one of them into its owner's graveyard. Mutating with a creature that has inspired would be cool. There are tons of useful creatures in your graveyard to reanimate with your commanders ability. How does mutate work with temporary creatures such as Treetop Village? If Kalamax becomes tapped as a cost to cast your first instant spell in a turn, its first ability triggers. Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast{3}{R}{R}Legendary Planeswalker Lukka5+1: Exile the top three cards of your library. Dark Bargain{3}{B}InstantLook at the top three cards of your library. There are a few Sagas that have CMC three or less, making them recastable. Its a small thing, but I like playing cards that give creatures to other players alongside Suture Priest. Then all the chosen cards are discarded at the same time. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. Mutate is an MTG mechanic that was introduced in Ikoria: Lair of the Behemoths. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object. Blood Curdle targets only one creature: the one that will be destroyed. Haldan's ability applies only while it's on the battlefield. Mutate is an alternative cost. You can pay {2} even if Savai Thundermane leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves. In both cases the answer is: No, you cant cast them for their mutate cost. In a Two-Headed Giant game, Slitherwisp's last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you to draw one card. This may cause a single creature to be blocking the creature with menace; the blocking creature remains blocking. For example, you can't decline to choose a creature a player will keep if that player controls a creature. Similarly, you can't waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may. There were a few times when I was putting together this list that I had to go back and make sure about creature types. Illuna, Apex Of Wishes is a Temur (green/blue/red) commander, which has no shortage of high mana powerful permanents that you'll want to be cheating out with Illuna. You cant sacrifice the pieces of the merged creature under the top card, only the entire mutated creature. padding: 0.5em; If a legendary creature card with "partner with [name]" is designated as your commander, the named legendary creature card can also be designated as your commander. If you control a permanent with more than one type, you may choose it for each of those types. If you have a second Twinning Staff, copying a spell results in two additional copies. Timing permissions based on a card's type are ignored. Put a counter of that kind on Crystalline Giant. )MenaceWhenever another creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had one or more counters on it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Pyroceratops{3}{R}Creature Elemental Dinosaur2/3TrampleWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Pyroceratops. All players will see what the card is if you put it into your hand. Sure, youre only getting back a permanent, but its in colors that really like permanents. Or is the effect spesefically linked to Illunas mutate cost? That's because the ability checks the creature as it last existed on the battlefield, and it still had those counters on it at that point. If either target is an illegal target as Go for Blood resolves, no creature will deal or be dealt damage. Savai Thundermane{R}{W}Creature Elemental Cat3/2Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay {2}. If its a big, splashy card, like Decree of Pain or some such, then its well worth casting. You don't exile card to find one that shares all of its types, and you can't choose to keep going to find a different one of those types. The activation cost is unaffected if it already costs one or zero mana (such as the activation cost of Zirda's last ability). Youre in the colors for Juniper Order Ranger to give the extra buffs. Play Rules/Modifiers. Sudden Spinnerets can target a creature that's already untapped. Shake up your Commander MTG removal suite! It still has all of the characteristics of the topmost object, which may cause it to be a creature or to not be a creature, and it has all of the abilities of its other cards. Compiled by Eli Shiffrin, with contributions from Laurie Cheers, Tom Fowler, Carsten Haese, Nathan Long, and Thijs van Ommen. If you discard a card as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, Surly Badgersaur's triggered ability resolves before that spell or ability but after you've chosen targets for it. Spells with flash that you control but didn't cast (perhaps because they're copies of a spell or because you took control of them from another player) can be countered. Zenith Flare{2}{R}{W}InstantZenith Flare deals X damage to any target and you gain X life, where X is the number of cards with a cycling ability in your graveyard. If the nontoken creature leaves the battlefield before Molten Echoes's triggered ability resolves, the token that's created uses the creature's last known information from before it left. } You may pay alternative costs such as mutate rather than a card's mana cost. The two target permanents don't have to share a type, which can result in some counters on permanents that would not occur normally, such as loyalty counters on creatures or +1/+1 counters on lands. You'll put it into your hand without revealing it and without saying whether it was a permanent card. For example, if every nonland card is an artifact creature, enchantment creature, or creature, it is satisfied; but if you have an artifact creature, an artifact, and a creature, it is not satisfied. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. If none can, the creature that's required to block can block another creature or not block at all. {R}: Target Shark gains trample until end of turn. If Nascent Metamorph becomes a copy of an object with a set of linked abilities (for example, one ability that exiles a card and another that refers to the card "exiled with" the object), that link only lasts as long as Nascent Metamorph is copying that object. If the method I used to take it stated that the creature returns to their owner at the end step, is it then ignored, because Ive mutated it and its on the bottom? Any target opponents that are no longer legal targets by the time Call the Coppercoats resolves won't have their creatures counted when determining how many tokens you create. )VigilanceEach other creature you control that's a Cat, Elemental, Nightmare, Dinosaur, or Beast gets +1/+1 and has vigilance. If you mutate onto Triton Fortune Hunter, youll get to draw a card. Planeswalkers such as Lukka and Narset who represent human characters aren't affected by General's Enforcer. Keyword counters on The Ozolith will grant it keywords that may have no practical effect. Drannith Stinger{1}{R}Creature Human Wizard2/2Whenever you cycle another card, Drannith Stinger deals 1 damage to each opponent.Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.). The key difference here is theres no colon between the mana cost and what it does, just the word mutate and then the cost. This action doesn't use the stack. You can only mutate by casting a creature with mutate from your hand on a non-Human creature. If it's a legal target but Surly Badgersaur is no longer on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the target creature won't deal or be dealt damage.
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