Exclusive Ikoria Preview Card - Regal Leosaur! - and Understanding Mutate! - MTG Spoiler Discussion
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- Big thanks to Wizards of the Coast for giving me Regal Leosaur as a free preview card for Ikoria. Let's take a closer look at this preview, and talk about the intricacies of Mutate, and strange corner cases and complications with regards to the rules.
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Maybe WOTC gave you Regal Leosaur because of its impressive regal mane... Like yours. Tenuous but there.
Or they're trying to call him the king of pussies? Because of all the fetchland aggro? :( Cheeky wizards we see you!
I thought it was maybe because of his love for *cat* jesus?
Either way this doesn't turn Ghost Quarter into a strip mine so idk why he would get this one :D
@@davidsnedden4796 - They gave Spice 8 Rack a cat as well, likely due to his glowing review of Cats.
It's other creatures, so the creature you mutate isn't affected by the boost.
WOMP WOMP - Reading is hard.
@@PleasantKenobi something something mother tongue...😉
I did wonder if he'd notice as the video went on :/
I'm looking forward to the eventual Storm Scale article about Mutate.
inevitable*
and companion...
My years of playing Grasilda the Monster Masher in EDH have finally paid off. Nothing can ever be as complicated as having a Platinum Angel+Seige-gang Commander+Ulamog that is simultaneously in my hand, in an opponent's library, and on the stack. I still don't know exactly how that happened...
Justin Bruce I... what? I need to see that.
Justin Bruce and here’s something to challenge it, Mishra Self-Replicator being mutated, then token-copied. How the ability work applies to the creature, not just MSR, so you create millions of Mishras that are 3/7 creatures. Or whatever it is.
I'd believe that the then copies would still have all abilities of the mutated card, seeing as the first copy retains all abilities of the mutation
@@flyingturret208thecannon5 so the story of the Great Monster-Mash of Dragon's Lair, Austin. It's important to remember that Mashed creatures are considered the same creature in ALL zones.
I had Griselda and a sac outlet, and mashed my Seige-gang with an opponent's PlatAngel. The next turn cycle, the mono green player discarded the Ulamog to hand size, hoping I could add it to my pile and close out the game (we had been going for 90 minutes by that point)
The Platinum Angel's controller cast Cyclonic rift to avoid dying to my Monstrosity, and each card that made up the creature was returned to their owner's hands.
He then brainstormed, put the Platinum Angel in his Library, and cracked a fetch to shuffle it away.
The game proceeded for another 30 minutes, and the green player was able to build up 22 mana to cast the Creature. After a 25 minute debate, we decided to have someone outside the game search for the Platinum Angel, and put all three in play.
Justin Bruce good lord xD, that’s crazy
Mutate: the mechanic that brings De-Fusion into Magic.
If you think the *Ruinous Ultimatum* is not Raigeki, we cannot be friends.
@@MajraMangetsu It's a strictly better Raigeki, it has Harpie's Feather Duster stapled to it as well
@@CopiVT We are friends now.
De-fusion is a card that does the opposite though. You mean fusion in general, or the card polymerization.
@@JBergmansson I meant specifically in regards to blinking mutated creatures so they split up to their components ;)
The Theros God interaction is WEIRD; hadn’t thought about that! An indestructible typless permanent...nuts.
I do have to wonder if the mutate stack maintains it's individual casting costs, when it comes to counting devotion, or if the cards underneath it cease to have casting costs or colors.
Also, the mechanic natively translates abilities, but does it also add to the colors of the creature mutated? How does this interact with, or impact ETB effects? I need to do some reading...
@@mtgskunkworx1671 No, the mutated creature keeps the casting cost of the top creature in the pile, IIRC
@@colaocha1115 You recall correctly.
Also if the creature on top is a token you can populate the whole stack too.
@@mtgskunkworx1671 The stack of mutated creatures are considered to be 1 card. Casting cost, names, power/toughness, and type lines no longer matter unless it's the top card. From there, I'd say the pile is the color of whatever is on top. UNLESS you have a creature with devoid in the pile.
on ETBs I'd say they don't trigger as nothing is entering the battlefield. Rather you're expanding the text box of a creature already in play. Think auras that don't ETB and can't be interacted with.
Only Spoiler of content creator I've actually waited so much
Enjoy.
I'm just glad wizards is finally adding support to my favorite format, Judge's Tower!
How does it work with Companion? Will all players have to cast their entire collection of legal companion cards at earliest possible oportunity?
@@jakx2ob You have a 250 card shared vintage library. aside from the otter there is no way you can qualify for any of the companions. as for the otter, thare is no sideboard in judge's tower (I think, I don't actually know) so no companion anyway.
@@dazaran714 there is no sideboard in EDH either lol
@@jakx2ob AND IT SHOULDN'T WORK IN COMMANDER EITHER AHHHHHHHH!!!
But no for real. 99% sure the rules committee is either filled with Timmy's who just want such a "cool and unique" mechanic that SUCKS mind you, or got paid off by WotC. There should be zero way companion would have hit commander the way it did. Either let a sideboard for wishes and stuff to also work, or make the mechanic not work. Simple. Not "companions now works in its own way for commander."
@@ebbandfloatzel I mean they created the best MTG format and banned the most harmful companion straight out the gate.
The cards wotc prints with EDH in mind are at lot more harmful to the format.
But yes, it would be good to get a consistent ruling concerning sideboard cards from the RC.
This actually DID help. I didn't even think about clones and effects like persist. Much love
This is a really well made piece of commentary. An honest review of the card.
Many previewers feel the need to make their card appear to be the second coming. This is a realistic look at the ups and downs of the card and the mechanics, and I appreciate that.
Most importantly, I feel enlightened after watching this.
Wizards is "lucky" this set is released during a pandemic. People will get much more familiar with it due to Arena.
Every time you copy another copy, you get "tracking issues".
Not to mention copying a mimeoplasm on the field.
Mutate is not going to be an issue in paper, at least not because of the tracking.
me having an existential crisis:
typeless permanent: bruh
For Crystalline Giant, I will put one of each counter type in a cup, shake it around, and pick one without looking at the beginning of combat. Boom. Just chose a random counter that it doesn't have.
That's actually genius - though there's a flaw with how you laid it out: you need to replace the removed token in the cup before choosing again. There's nothing preventing you from getting the same one multiple times. The +1/+1 counters stack of course, but unfortunately, this does give you dead draws if you get duplicates of things like Flying or Trample.
@@KingBobXVI Correct - i would physically place the counter on it when i select it. It is removed from the cup, and what remains are just the counter types it does not have yet.
Wait, since the effect says "other creatures you control" does mutating onto krenko work as he is saying? Shouldn't you mutate it onto another creature to pump krenko?
You are right - I wrote and recorded the whole video missing the "another" bit . Whoops lol.
it still does work being mutates onto another creature, but just a little les explosive.
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard you demand rationale reprints for fetch lands between your own videos and ones with the professor. You got a sub from me just now for the persistence.
Mutate is going to be fun in sealed and draft. It’ll be fun in casual, eternal formats. I even think it’ll be alright in standard and a couple cards will make it to pioneer. It isn’t going to reshape any of the competitive meta of eternal competitive formats like legacy or modern. And that’s all fine with me; I’m not looking for ground breaking mechanics every single set.
It's nice to know wizards still remembers who you are, and you're not getting a bunch of random commons
well then, guess I'm going to be the first in my playgroup to make typeless permanent tribal edh where I just abuse clones mutates and theros gods to assemble a boardstate that makes as little sense within the confines of the game as possible.
Unpopular opinion: Wotc should ban fetchlands in modern. Would solve the lack of reprints issue.
In terms of most mutate interactions I have to say I really dont think its that hard. Just imagine the creature literally mutated and thus the card itself also changed.
I think the confusing part is mostly just what happens when it leaves the battlefield. Like, "it's one creature" is trivial to understand as long as it's in play. But when it dies? Well, depending on how it leaves the battlefield, and what death or LTB triggers exist, you can get some interesting and non-intuitive results. One creature died but 5 entered the graveyard, but you get 5 LTB triggers? I guess that works... kind of. The Mimic Vat example is especially odd, since it normally only imprints one creature.
@@KingBobXVI this ^ if my 5 stack mutate dies I only get 1 blood artist trigger but do I get 5 Konrad triggers for all the physical cards with creature type entering the gy?
In the situation of the "Mutated" gods, I wonder how arena will handle a typeless card. I imagine someone on the dev team had a small panic attack along the lines of "We have to program what?!"
I don't know what that "typeless permanent" means here, gods are enchantment creatures and when they don't have enough devotion they are not a creature, which leaves only enchantment part. Cards that interact with enchantments interact with inactive gods (like Pharikas libation). On the technical side gods on arena work like they are affected with invisible hexproof mutant of Pacifism type card that removes "creature" type from its victims which makes them only visually change zones and when certain condition (devotion) met it is lifted so they are creatures again. I'm saying that because when games end inactive gods jump into creature zone for a moment. One with the Stars acts in the same way. Wonders of coding, eh?
Ara Amahasla The typeless permanent mentioned above would be what happens when a Theros god is mutated over. As the top card’s only type is likely creature, and the Theros god devotion effect removes the creature type, you end up with a permanent that is not a land, enchantment, artifact, or creature; it is typeless.
My new favorite thing that I discovered by accident is that Kaya's Ghostform turns a stack of mutations into a clown car of doom.
How does krenko become a 5/4 with one mutation of this and a attack? He is a 1/2, then a 3/3, then a 4/4?
I hate to be this guy. Regal Leosour pumps other creatures. So it doesn't pump itself... So you probably don't want to put this on krenko, you want to put it on another creature. Which makes it worse for a mutate deck because you don't want to pile on this creature, but you need to mutate to trigger it.
So, does this mean Banding is back in the table?
Well, it's about as complicated as Banding, but does more than it. So in that regards yes.
Ahhh ya!
Obviously, as mutate is only for non-humans - now they can finally print a new set with "Bands with other Humans" core mechanic!
Band together to fight the monsters!
Well the vast majority of mutate cards only trigger on mutate in the first place, so I don't think the mutate piles will get too complicated
Nice explanation. But what if you mutate your commander as the bottom card? Is that creature your commander and does it do commander damage?
Mutate. Still a less complicated mechanic than pendulums in yugioh.
pendulums weren't that complicated. the best equivalency is links and how they completely canged the way tha game worked.
@@chaoticjexak eh i still find pendulums complicated even to this day and most people i know have trouble with them. Personally I think synchros changed things more than links did. Before then all we had in the extra deck was fusions.
But don’t worry, separate banlists for commander is too confusing
On both red and white decks!?
Hah, not in commander.
While I agree (that rule should be changed) you wouldn't be able to play this with the change either because of its normal casting cost
What if a card becomes a human?
How is devotion counted?
What about the droid attack on the wookies?
The thing has to be not a human when it's first targeted by the mutation. After that I think it's fine but we'll have to wait for the release notes.
Devotion checks the top-most thing which is why they cover up most other relevant pieces of info.
Never happened.
@@Magnivore519 sir, I'll have you know my uncle was a rookie so your denial of the hardships we've faced Is very hurtful
So you can gain control of an opponent's creature until end of turn [Claim the Firstborn, Act of Treason, etc], and mutate your own creature on top of it or underneath it... what is the outcome if it is underneath (the top creature belongs to the opponent and everything returns to them at EOT) and what is the outcome if it is on top (it's now your creature and you keep it and everything underneath?) I think this is a pretty chintzy mechanic aimed at developing a "wow-factor" for Arena - i.e. dogshit.
I feel like if it's on top you get to keep it, but you put yours underneath it just modifies theirs so it goes back.
Or maybe it's just theirs regardless because the creature _object_ hasn't changed.
Mutate feels like an Un mechanic.
Like the Augments from Unstable
ähm what abaout 8 Wack i mean its not that bad i guess ^^
Honestly Vince, this card i think is just going to be be a standard aggro staple for boros. if there is a boros aggro deck. That effect is very good in standard, and boros' problem is often that it's flooding the board but has no good embercleave carrier. this both makes embercleave better, AND works well with a wide board.
Only problem with that analysis is this: How many good boros creatures are non-human for low cmc?
I’m really excited for a ton of individual cards from this set - probably even moreso than I’ve had for the past couple of releases - but overall this set just feels like an absolute mess in terms of mechanics and rules implications. Mutate has a ton of nonsensical and unintuitive interactions mentioned by PK in the video; Companion is a nightmare of a mechanic in Commander where the rules literally had to be bent to make it function, and it’s poorly designed across all formats in that many of the requirements are automatically met for certain decks or entire formats; and keyword counters, while really cool in theory and in digital, are going to be an absolute mess to keep track of - especially with abilities in this set that dump sometimes up to five, six, or more of them onto multiple creatures on your board, or in EDH when we’ve already got dozens and dozens of other counters to worry about even without all these evergreen counters thrown into the mix. Like I said, super pumped to slot a bunch of these individual cards into various decks. Not at all excited about the set as a whole and its implications for paper Magic.
Taking a shitty preview and center it about it's keywords. Good job man! Loved the video.
Thank you!!!! Much help...
I didn't know about the clone clause to mutate!... I'm gonna... go grab my spark doubles...
Finally, us "plays Banding decks in commander just to lord over people with rules pedantry" people have an archetype to play in Standard! :D
I personally love mutate as a complicated mechanic. Will note tho, didn't wotc change slivers cuz they disliked "on-board complexity"....wtf then?
Different kind of complexity, I think? Slivers confused people largely because they'd forget that slivers on both sides benefited from their effects. Imo it's worse now, since a sliver deck now has a mix of creatures that buff both sides and creatures that only buff your side. Oops.
Maybe if mutate goes well they'll look into another set with proper slivers :P
Controversial opinion: reprint fetchlands
Maybe someone at Wizards heard you talking about cat Jesus and decided you just like cats.
My current deck brew is Vadrok #EDH with Cackling counterpart. You can totally play with the legendary nature of creatures with some abilities. For instance. Mutate a non-legendary atop of Hope of Ghirapur. And now you can easily copy it, you know, like with Blade of Selves.
Oh gads, Mutate with a Theros god to ultimately end up with an untyped permanent. That's great XD (Though ridiculously difficult to setup too.) And here I was thinking of merely having Sarkhan the Masterless become a dragon, and then mutate him into a Leosaur or something.
I love abilities like this, that allow you to make crazy interactions and put abilities on other things
however, this is obviously the next step in Wizards' plan to destroy paper Magic
I for one am happy that they decided to do it this way, I'm ready to embrace the chaos and send off paper Magic with a bang
I wish I shared your view PK that Magic will probably be ok! It all feels a bit Yu-gi-oh to me and I've met plenty of MTG players, particularly on the EDH scene, who are basically refugees from Yu-gi-oh and if you ask them why they bailed will talk about how power creep and complexity got too much in that game for them. I've also rapidly come round to your way of thinking about WOTC's treatment of paper magic. As a minimum it seems that WOTC are fairly relaxed about the impact of increased admin load on paper magic and the detrimental effect on games. The thing is though - and this isWOTCs biggest mistake here - the games continued success needs paper magic. The success of the game and it's monopoly position are down to the network of spaces to play, spaces where people come together and make new friends. It sounds sentimental, but look at the success of EDH, and the whole social contract.... I'm rambling here, but the social contract just doesn't hold up in the digital world!
Ive been playing a 5 color mutate EDH deck online (table top simulator) and it is insanely fun and wildly complicated. Love it.
Already have a Mutate/Clone EDH deck list on Tapped out. The tracking isn't as bad as I thought it'd be. But I also have a better memory than some. Digital will be able to track it easier; however, I wouldn't be surprised if MTGO crashes after a certain number of stacked abilities.
Also, the EDH rules committee is currently ruling that if your commander is in a mutate pile, regardless where in the pile it is, that mutant pile still deals commander damage.
Uuuggghh, if this quarantine wasn't happening, and I was making money I'd swoop up one of your "Reprint Fetch Lands" shirts. They're so sick, and hilarious to be real.
Mutate is heck easy to understand until you start playing Commander where all those weird edge case scenarios become common 🤣😂
Also I find the concept of mutating a god to be weird. What's up Perphoros? The people do not believe in you like they used to, so I guess I need to become Guy Fieri you and take you to flavor town by mixing you with this dinosaur cat! 🔥🌶
Well your card is a cat and you love cat jesus so much...
Also it says OTHER CREATURES so mutating it on krenko will make you feel sad
I actually think that this could have VERY limited applications in standard in a Naya deck. Paradise Druid can be used as a base for a multi-mutation creature that just stacks recurring value from behind hexproof.
Mutate is just too complicated. Typeless permanents are fine, but imprinting and then choosing or exiling both or flicker...??? Type is curse👻
I'm convinced that mutate will be extremely OP. Just the Boggles ramifications alone are astounding, and that's probably the fairest use.
I can't believe I'm gonna have to get another surgeon commander so I can use him as my mutate commander.
Ah shit. Pour one out for Vince for once again getting a shit preview card. At least they immortalized you in the Bearded Ball-holder, and on that note, I really hope when you inevitably test it in D&T, you say you're casting yourself
The clone trackability issue isn't unique to Mutate. If you Volrath clone a pack rats, you can pay 3 and discard to make 7/5 pack rats with volraths activated ability
A fun thing I heard is if you have a stack of mutated creatures with
Ilharg, the Raze-Boar (or one of the God Eternals) and it dies or gets exiled....the whole stack goes third from the top with it. The whole stack goes whever the rules text of the cards sends it. Same applies if you have a Serra Avatar or another critter that gets reshuffled into your library upon death.
the theros god idea does drum up a really interesting idea.
just mutate one boi with lots of 'enchantment-like' effects, make sure top card is in a colour that rarely is a target for cards. then the only things that can target it is 'target permenant', or 'target non-land permenant'
becuase its not a creature or enchantment. its just a...thing that exists.
also can you mutate a land that is considered a creature? does it become a mana dork?
Blue humans with fins can mutate, Bolas can mutate, but humans are too special or something. That's my only personal problem with this.
What's the point of a vast multiverse with incredible diversity when the only things that matter, are humans, and "everything else".
Oh no.. PK, you missed that his +2/+1 is OTHER. Mutating onto Krenko makes Krenko JUST a 2/2...
Wow! Meta jokes about Reddit stoking your preview for Karma! Wasn’t ready for this 😂😂😂
Glad I'm not the only one who had that same thought about the push towards arena. Having to keep track of a +1/+1 counter, a double strike counter, and a flying counter in fnm and which cards got what seems like a really easy way for people to screw up intentionally or not. And another thing, if Hasbro wants wizards to push arena they need to make some major updates to the usability and push it on mobile devices. It's been out for so long and as far as I know there's still no friends list!
What will be interesting is if and how the online clients (MTGO/MTGA) handle all the extra text on mutated creatures. I'm anticipating some jankiness at release.
You got Regal Leosaur because of the British symbolism. Because when I see you speak about the UK I've only ever seen rabid jingoism.
I didn't think anybody used the word 'grok',except myself and my family,cool that you've read Heinlein.👍
holy shit, I didn't think about the god interactions. There's gotta be some jank EDH strategy that'd want to abuse that.
Regal Leosaur says "other" creatures get +2/+1. I don't believe Krenko will get the buff unless you mutate a different creature.
Gotta wonder how mirage mirror and copy a giant mutated pile and then flicker the mirage mirror copy. Would you get a bunch of token copies of all the creatures in the pile AND the mirage mirror back as an artifact into play? Would nothing happen? Like what?
I have little issue with mutate in a vacuum. Reading the card explains what it does as the truism goes. It's the interactions with other game actions that had me wondering. This might have been something, like keyword counters, they should have introduced earlier on when there was less baggage mechanic-wise to process.
As for Crystalline Giant, while I didn't care for Forsythe being glib on Twitter about rolling "one of the myriad d20s that we have lying around",* a solution that doesn't involve dice is to pick a suitable number of cards from your collection, each with one of the relevant bits of text, and put them aside on a pile. Then, whenever the ability triggers, shuffle them, fan them out face-down and ask your opponent to pick their poison ;) It's fair this can be difficult for people with a small or tight collection.
* In full disclosure, for half of my stint with MTG, I didn't even know what a local game store was. I bought my cards at bookstores, so good luck finding dice for sale. I looked today and I don't think even now I could get those easily.
Most people probably have at least some in an old boardgame and if not there is always the Internet.
@@DT-ce1fb From a board game I had a d6, chipped. True enough, at the time I started with Magic, high school required a TI-83 calculator for Math, which could be used as an RNG.
However you do have to allow for people to only have access to the cards and reasonably available objects like coins. Expecting people to always have access to dice, fancy calculators, or the Internet when they want to play isn't as reasonable as you'd like to think.
That said, I do think people could exercise a bit more creativity working around these issues.
Please begin every video asking for reasonable fetch reprints!
What would happen if you mutate a morph creature? I mean, when you turn your morph face up or down, does it affect the whole pile or just the morph card? I'm also guessing that if you bounce it, the whole pile comes back to my hand then i have to recast everything?
OTHER creatures you control... It ain't even as good as you were complaining it wasn't. lol
If Regal Leosaur mutates on Krenko, Krenko will not get +2/+1. The card says "other creatures."
I've noticed a lot of creators mentioning in their spoiler videos that the spoiler was provided for free. What the actual codpiece is this? It seems like a massive cheek that WotC would get someone to do free advertising for them and then make they say that like WotC are doing them some kind of favour. I get that content creators get something out of the deal in terms of traffic to their channel, but WotC's benefit FAR outweighs that.
I'm actually really hype for your card because I play boros aggro and I've easily killed people on turn 4 and 5. Boros tokens is nutty :)
Of course magic is gonna be okay. We've seen these standard exclussive mechanics a million times, they make waves in standard, see no play anywhere else, forget about them and move on to the next design mistake.
Hold on a moment...doesn't Mutate let you get around legendary rule, since it's just what's on top? So you could have a nonlegendary Mutated over a legendary, and then another copy of that Legendary out?
I would like to bring up that you mutating the leosaur onto Krenko isn’t that useful. Once you mutate the card onto Krenko, they become the same creature, so Krenko is no longer “another creature”, and therefore wouldn’t get the boost.
Idk if someone has already said this but regal leosaur says OTHER creatures, and the word "this" Is subtitute for whatever the name of the creature is at that moment, so if you mutate on krenko then krenko wont get the anthom effect cause he is causing the effect, ergo krenko is this creature mutating.
The Regal Leosaur mutate ability won’t apply the buff to the creature it is mutated on. Sigh why does this say other creatures...sad panda
Thanks for the Mutate explanation. I think I've got a better handle on it now. Something about the help text just made it really hard to grok for me.
If you mutate 2 regal leosaur together you only get +2/+1 not +4/+2 as the one you are mutating becomes a single creature with both abilities. In order to get the +4/+2 you would then need to mutate any 3rd card onto the double leosuar mutation to trigger the two abilities on the mutated card
i kinda wish they had given the cards a different, objectively bad, layout with the p/t in the middle of the card where the mutate box ends so that the only p/t you can see in the pile is the top card, even if the top card is a regular creature you would still only see its p/t and overall it would have been easier to read. It would look like ass but would be much easier to play with
Ikoria sucks though. Fucking cringe dinos and shit.
Still love you though. :)
There’s a space in between magics OK and this is a stupid mechanic, that is where we live right now. Just because something like this is intuitive doesn’t mean it’s going to destroy magic, that also doesn’t mean that it’s fine
Clone Legion can be quite hard to track if your board is big enough. In EDH we just have to take a pic on our phone
I think mutating onto a brisela could be an interaction that you could do ... no idea what would happen from that but its techincally something possible.
You might get hooglan'ed for the first bit of your video Vince. And I would be proud of you if you did. Haha
Sounds like you’re saying this card is bad at whacking. Seems like there’s no wrong way to do that...
Not excited about Mutate or Companion but there are some interesting human and counter cards I want for my Kenrith Commander deck.
What if you mutate together two abilities that clash with each other? E.g: when this creature dies, return it back to hand + when this creature dies, exile it instead...
I actually think they're doing a good job still taking the physical game into account while doing their big move towards digital. And I'm someone who only plays paper MTG: no MTGO, no Arena. Mutate-stack-tracking is cumbersome and works better on digital, yes, but tbh a lot of the game is cumbersome in paper. I love MTG's weird mechanics. It's half of what makes this game fun.
Agreed I to play only in paper
i actually think that this is actually a quite decent for boros weenies, sadly that aint a good archetype in standard right now.
also the push for ''digital'' mechanics already happend with hakdos the rng
Nah, haktos was a die roll. How do you keep track if the 3 mana 3/3 that gets a counter every turn and has 11 options so you cant roll a d20
@@antoniobush4560 roll a d12. If it lands on 12, reroll
Wish you would have talked about mutate on a plainswalker that can become a creature till end of turn because I don't quite understand how that one works
i am hoping optimistically that with wotc making this complicated of a mechanic it opens the door to bring back other complicated mechanics like my personal favorite banding
If you can turn a planeswalker in creature and mutate it, I'm really curious to see what will happen. :D
Card is alright, but's it would be alot better if it included "nin Arbiter" somewhere in it's name.
I can't mutate humans, but I still can mutate angels? Great, I am going to mutate my Avacyn in Commander game
Crystalline Golem has 10 keywords. You can use a d10 with icons to serve both as the randomizer and the token, but WotC should AT LEAST given them with the prerelease packs and preconstructed decks.
For cloning mutated cards, that's a shitshow I have no idea how to handle, besides just noting it down on a paper...
"besides just noting it down on a paper"
I mean... that's the answer. It's not particularly complicated.
This would be pretty sweet in an 8 whack or zoo deck for pioneer