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. 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. Creatures they begin to control later in the turn won't get -1/-1. Once you announce that you're casting Gust of Wind, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Matt Morgan May 7, 2021 The Summer of Legend. If your commander is mutated into a pile then the merged creature does commander damage and counts as your commander regardless of its location in the pile. I had a couple quick questions to clear up any rules about EDH and mutate. The value of X is determined only as the triggered ability resolves. The activation cost is reduced by only {1} if doing so reduces that cost to one mana. The Hydra token enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature. Nethroi, Apex Of Death is a reanimator commander in Abzan (white/black/green) that will bring back any number of creatures with power ten or less from your graveyard back to the battlefield. Much of the talk Ive seen so far has involved Nethroi, Apex of Death (some it from me) and Illuna, Apex of Wishes, but I suspect that well see some creative builds from the community with the others as well. If there are no other players left in the game, you win the game. Primal Empathy{1}{G}{U}EnchantmentAt the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. If multiple replacement effects could be applied to the merged creature leaving the battlefield or being put into its new zone, applying one of those effects affects all of the moving objects. Cunning Nightbonder's last ability doesn't apply to itself while it's a spell. Mutate ranks medium-highly on the Storm Scale due to its immense complexity - part of the issue was making sure the environment in Standard around Ikoria did not result in problematic interactions, and consequently its power level had to be managed to prevent breakouts in larger formats, which may also have contributed to its middling popularity. Because it's a loyalty ability, Narset's first ability isn't a mana ability. Genesis Ultimatum{G}{G}{U}{U}{U}{R}{R}SorceryLook at the top five cards of your library. You can't move counters from the target creature to itself. You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures. Theres room for brewing something extraordinarily different. The player whose upkeep it is may put a doom counter on Lavabrink Floodgates, remove one from it, or do nothing. border: 1px solid #ccc; Glademuse{2}{G}Creature Beast2/4Whenever a player casts a spell, if it's not their turn, that player draws a card. Youre certainly putting Sawtusk Demolisher on top of a smaller creature, lending its large, tramply body to a small flyer or mana creature, likely one that helped you get to it in the first place. You can then tap Kiki-Jiki, making a copy of itself. If there are no creatures on the battlefield at all, you don't draw a card. )Whenever this creature mutates, each opponent discards a card. You just need to know which ones to grab. Vitality Hunter{3}{W}Creature Nightmare3/4Lifelink{X}{W}{W}: Monstrosity X. Its owner must pay for each time it was previously cast from the command zone; this is an additional cost. Eon Frolicker{2}{U}{U}Creature Elemental Otter5/5FlyingWhen Eon Frolicker enters the battlefield, if you cast it, target opponent takes an extra turn after this one. )At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. On the flipside, a mutated creature is a non-token permanent if the top card is a non-token permanent regardless of if a token is in the pile. You won't remove any counters from The Ozolith. Site design / logo 2023 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. After you've drawn, the appropriate creatures are all simultaneously returned to their owners' hands. Exile Emergent Ultimatum. The build Id run with it would be Elemental tribal cards like Risen Reef (and old favorite Coiling Oracle). Charge of the Forever-Beast{2}{G}SorceryAs an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a creature card from your hand.Charge of the Forever-Beast deals damage to target creature or planeswalker equal to the revealed card's power. When you do, it deals 6 damage to each creature. If the target creature you control has deathtouch, 1 damage from it is lethal. Its controller chooses to put the resolving mutating creature spell on top of its target or underneath it. Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger. Mutate is an MTG mechanic that was introduced in Ikoria: Lair of the Behemoths. Board & Card Games Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people who like playing board games, designing board games or modifying the rules of existing board games. Of One Mind{2}{U}SorceryThis spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a Human creature and a non-Human creature.Draw two cards. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, put it into your hand. You'll still pay all costs for a spell cast this way, including additional costs. You can mutate onto them while theyre face down, then still be able to turn them face up for even more value. Mutate has roots in Bestow, Emerge and Augment, acting like an ability-granting Aura spell. Zilortha is printed only with its alternate name in the title bar. Zirda, the Dawnwaker{1}{r/w}{r/w}Legendary Creature Elemental Fox3/3Companion Each permanent card in your starting deck has an activated ability. Utility creatures like Fertilid and Mulldrifter are Elementals, as well as big beaters like Lord of Extinction; Multani, Maro-Sorcerer; and everyones favorite, Avenger of Zendikar. That creature won't untap during its controller's next untap step. You choose how the counters will be distributed as you put the reflexive triggered ability onto the stack. Card Game Base is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Trynn, Champion of Freedom{3}{W}Legendary Creature Human Soldier3/3Partner with Silvar, Devourer of the Free (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Silvar into their hand from their library, then shuffle. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to Ravenous Gigantotherium. Exuberant Wolfbear{3}{G}Creature Wolf Bear4/4Whenever Exuberant Wolfbear attacks, you may change the base power and toughness of target Human you control to Exuberant Wolfbear's power and toughness until end of turn. If you discard a card as a cost to cast a spell or activate an ability, Brallin's middle ability resolves before that spell or ability but after you've chosen targets for it. This action doesn't use the stack. If you find only one card, you'll shuffle it into your library and exile Emergent Ultimatum without casting anything. If an object has no controller (such as a card in a graveyard), its owner is considered its controller for this purpose. If the creature is already monstrous when the monstrosity ability resolves, nothing happens. They won't stop the Human you find from entering the battlefield attacking. )Whenever this creature mutates, other creatures you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of times this creature has mutated. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal). Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. } Gust of Wind{3}{U}SorceryThis spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.Draw a card. Why didn't Crawling Barrens grow larger when mutated with my Gemrazer? While resolving Savai Thundermane's triggered ability, you can't pay {2} more than once to have it deal more damage or gain more life. (You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.). (Do this before you draw.). Saffi Eriksdotter and Karmic Guide can start your list, but low-power, high-value cards like Blood Artist, Suture Priest, and Duplicant make the cut. Archipelagore. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. Rooting Moloch{4}{R}Creature Lizard4/4When Rooting Moloch enters the battlefield, exile target card with a cycling ability from your graveyard. 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. Lore Drakkis. Put those permanent cards onto the battlefield. If you reveal your entire library without revealing a creature card with higher converted mana cost, you put the library back in a random order and continue. You can finish casting it as normal. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able. Mythos of Brokkos{2}{G}{G}SorceryIf {U}{B} was spent to cast this spell, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle your library.Return up to two permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand. )Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you scry 2. If Otrimi deals combat damage to a player at the same time that it's dealt lethal damage, Otrimi (or any other creature card with mutate that was merged with it) can be the target of its triggered ability. If you pay {2} while Savai Thundermane's triggered ability is resolving, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and will resolve separately. When you discard a nonland card this way, the reflexive triggered ability triggers and you pick a target to be dealt damage. Cromat allows you to play every mutate creature, all of which can be used to mutate Cromat itself. Nascent Metamorph becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. This was a very cool article. Necessary cookies can be opted out through your browser settings. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. Put a menace counter on a creature you control. Significant value for the five mana, most of the time getting a three-for-nothing. Extinction Event{3}{B}SorceryChoose odd or even. )FlyingWhenever this creature mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on it. But were here to talk about other things to do with it. The control-change effect of Souvenir Snatcher lasts indefinitely. Jubilant Skybonder{1}{w/u}{w/u}Creature Human Wizard2/2FlyingCreatures you control with flying have "Spells your opponents cast that target this creature cost {2} more to cast.". The creature stays tapped if its already tapped from attacking or activating an ability and wont untap when the new creature is put on top of the merged pile. If you wish to cast the target card, you do so as part of the resolution of Vadrok's ability. )When you cycle Shark Typhoon, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying. Silvar, Devourer of the Free{3}{B}{R}Legendary Creature Cat Nightmare4/2Partner with Trynn, Champion of Freedom (When this creature enters the battlefield, target player may put Trynn into their hand from their library, then shuffle. By clicking Accept all cookies, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy. ")Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, Surly Badgersaur fights up to one target creature you don't control. Deflecting Swat{2}{R}InstantIf you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.You may choose new targets for target spell or ability. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Mindleecher are exiled, and any cards remaining in exile remain face down indefinitely. 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. Mythos of Vadrok{2}{R}{R}SorceryMythos of Vadrok deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers. 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. Surly Badgersaur's abilities are triggered abilities, not activated abilities. Bonder's Ornament{3}Artifact{T}: Add one mana of any color. Effects that reduce the generic mana cost of a spell (such as that of Umori) can't reduce that spell's colored mana requirements. A copy is created even if the spell that caused Kalamax's ability to trigger has been countered by the time that ability resolves. Skycat Sovereign{W}{U}Creature Elemental Cat1/1FlyingSkycat Sovereign gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with flying. 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. A diverse community of players devoted to Magic: the Gathering, a trading card game ("TCG") produced by Wizards of the Coast and originally designed by Richard Garfield. 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. Regal Leosaur | Illustration by Ilse Gort. These cards are legal for play in the Commander, Vintage, and Legacy formats. Once the exiled permanents return, they're considered new objects with no relation to the objects that they were. Creatures that player controls can still attack you or planeswalkers you control, but the damage they would deal will be prevented. padding: 0.5em; This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. 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. Yes, you can mutate multiple times on the same permanent. If Crystalline Resonance becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can't attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any) unless it has haste. A creature card that you exiled with a fetch counter on it may be cast as a noncreature spell if a rule or effect (such as that of adventurer cards) allows you to do so. Shabraz, the Skyshark{3}{W}{U}Legendary Creature Shark Bird3/3Partner with Brallin, Skyshark RiderFlyingWhenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Shabraz, the Skyshark and you gain 1 life. If you return two creature cards, you may put one counter on each or put both counters on one. If an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, the Aura's controller-to-be chooses what it will enchant as it enters the battlefield. They don't allow you to discard a card whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of discarding a card, such as a cycling ability. 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. Kalamax's first ability considers the entire turn. If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, the planeswalker's controller is the defending player. Mythos of Nethroi can target any nonland permanent. If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you'll put one of them into its owner's graveyard. Proud Wildbonder{2}{r/g}{r/g}Creature Human Warrior4/3TrampleCreatures you control with trample have "You may have this creature assign its combat damage as though it weren't blocked.". The cards on this list and some of the others with mutate will truly shine when brought together with the potential commanders that also have mutate. Updated Aug 30, 2022 by clydefrog0422 using our MTG Deck Builder. 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. If an effect exiles a merged creature then returns it to the battlefield, the individual cards each return. You can use this in combination with a card like Impact Tremors for a crazy combo win! Repeat this process for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. The cards are returned to that library in a random order. 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. "But what happens when it gets blinked?" you ask. Humble Naturalist{1}{G}Creature Human Druid1/3{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}, Sacrifice Sleeper Dart: Target creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.