Mutate Is A Weird Mechanic 

Shout out to Mike from the LGS. You know who you are

You can crew a vehicle. Then mutate it. TURNING IT INTO A MONSTER TRUCK.

“The top card won’t be a creature, and it probably won’t be an enchantment either” This fact is driving me up the wall, it’s just… a permanent

You forgot the best interaction-if a mutated creature pile has undying, it brings each creature in the pile back separated, and each gets a +1/+1! So much fun!

Mutate is how my favorite rule 0 jank deck works. It's called 52 card pickup. I turn a chaos orb into a creature then mutate as much onto it as possible. Due to the rule that the mutate stack counts as the same card, i activate my chaos orb then just launch the pile into the air

I started playing MtG just as Ikoria released, and the jankiness and Timmy-ness revolving around this awful mechanic never get old to me. I love seeing combos that do weird, useless crap like "move your whole deck into the command zone". Also, scutate!

My personal favourite mutate shenanigans is that if you were to reanimate a phage with the lose the game trigger on the stack you can flash in a mutate creature onto phage and as long as the mutate creature was cast from hand you won't lose the game

About your last point, the thing that always “angers” me about mutate is that you can’t mutate on humans, but you can on elves or dwarves. Come on, elves are just hippy humans with pointy ears, what makes them so mutable?

Don't forget, you can't mutate a changling, because they are human. You know, the creatures that can change their from, and got a bunch of support and new cards 2 sets after Ikoria. That being said, I love it. Such a weird mechanic.

The most relevant thing you need to know about mutate is that for Oko it's still just a 3/3 with no abilities

I also just realised, you can also mutate vehicles and Neon Dynasty's "reconfigure" equipments. More rules shenanigans about crewing or equiping there. Let alone the lore implications of a Smugglers Copter erupting into a Sea Dashed Octopus mid-flight, or The Reality Chip you just detached from the back of your head spontaneously catching fire as it gestates into an Everquill Phoenix.

I didn't fully understand the absolute rules Nightmare that is Mutate until an Arena opponent Mutated onto a Scute Swarm, and then played a land, creating a whole new Mutate pile, copying all the cards attached.

I love how you used Flbthp in so many of these mutate piles, even though it's near impossible to mutate onto one.

You forgot about the fun interaction of mutating onto a cosima, god of the voyage. The entire stack of creatures all get exiled with the god’s ability and whenever you play a land, they ALL get voyage counters and all will draw cards when they return to the battlefield. Then there’s mutating onto vehicles.

1:29 dont forget that there is one card you can take out of the command zone if you put it in there with leadership vaccum+mutate. Yuriko. Commander ninjitsu still functions normally, so yuriko can come out of the command zone if she is in your 99. Even more funny, you can steal someone else's yuriko who IS a commander and put their commander in your command zone.

It always grinded my gears how changelings arent able to mutate. Like from a rules perspective I get it, but from a lore/flavor perspective COME OOOOOOON MAN

I swear I am one of a dozen people who are very comfortable with Mutate. Most of the weird interactions are pretty intuitive to me. I hope one day WotC prints more Mutate cards :)

Having built Vadrok recently, I can confirm that it’s a wildly fun but very confusing mechanic, especially with mutating onto clones of mutated creatures. The copy will keep all mutate triggers of the original and they can stack. Madness ensues. Awesome video! Love your stuff!

One of my favorite mutate interaction is Vadrik+Double Major. Apparently you can.... Mutate as a token on the stack, and then if it's Vadrok you can recast Double Major while the original is on the stack. This results into an endless stack of mutations that casts an increasing number of spells, which can result into a win if one spell deals damage to face. Vadrok is so much fun.

Mutate also works on Scute swarm, so when it’s landfall ability happens, instead of a 1/1 insect it could be a 3/4 beast

Another fun interaction with mutate is when you flicker the mutate stack. When the stack goes into exile and comes back the whole stack will actually be separated into individual permanents and not the whole stack

No matter how much of a rule’s headache mutate is, I can never let it go as one of my favourite mechanics. I did start playing around when Eldraine came out and started commander with the Otrimi precon so I do have bias towards Ikoria as a set but I’ll never stop playing Brokkos mutate at my LGS at least once every commander night

Hearthstone has a similar mechanic called magnetic that’s almost identical. When you attach a minion with magnetic, you give the target the stats and effects of the magnetic one. It’s like a buff spell. In every situation I’m aware of it works how you think it does. It’s kind of interesting because it illustrates the differences of a paper game. In magic, you need to keep track of who owns which piece of paper and which stack of paper you put it in when it dies, so you get all these rules about ownership and zones that digital games simply don’t have. Plus, people sitting at a kitchen table need to be able to figure them out, and tournaments need judges when players disagree. There has to be a system and a rule book that outlines every single edge case. In a digital game, the engine is the judge. It’s gonna work how it works and if it’s not overtly buggy it’ll stay that way. Just an interesting thought.

What?! You can target creatures you own that were stolen?! That's something new I learned.

And this is why I love the chaotic complexity of Mutate, try mutating an animated land, you'll be laughing yourself to sleep

Yes. This is exactly the kind of niche interactions I need to build combos that nobody will counter because they don't know. Mutate may be weird, but at least it doesn't need reminder tokens like dungeons or the new werewolves.

I love Mutate so much. It is, unironically, my favorite ability ever.

Can't believe I found a channel that poses as my favourite card explaining my favourite mechanic

DUDE that one gideon not being a human is so fun. I always talk about him when piloting my gideon or mutate decks.

We made Alchemy in Arena because only there can we make cards that only make sense in a digital format. Meanwhile, mutate exists and is still working, albeit strangely, in paper.

If you mutate under a transformed Warewolf, then it transforms back, you now have a mutated human

The crab raving Kiki-mutate combo was fuckin' 13/10. Absolutely perfect.

"hey guys lets make something more nightmarish than banding"

not to be confused with the stack

I told people the etatra interaction the day mutate came out, only to have the whole store scream at me about how wrong I was.......

Mutate is the best MTG mechanic ever and I hope they make more (They won't.) It's so fun!

Great to have a new video, your content is fast paced, funny, and informative

Super glad to see you uploading again! Content's fire, keep it up!

there are 2 kinds of people in this world. those who will never understand mutate and those who knew everything about it always

My favorite part of mutate is how it works with another favorite of mine Volo, Guide to Monsters. Basically I can get three gemrazer mutate triggers for the price of one (if I don't have a beast on field or in yard), and any subsequent mutate blows up two artifacts.

Which proves the excellency of the game designers and rules writers. Mechanics that are way easier in warhammer break more often than the most complex mechanics in magic.

Imagine making a deck all about one-shotting someone with Etrata.

I flippin love this mechanic. Feels like something straight from an unset.

My Nethroi deck is my proudest creation. I've learned a few of these rulings the hard way.

Mutate is my all-time favorite mechanic in Magic. It's so gloriously silly and easy to underestimate, but only has enough support to be casual-playable in most cases. It hits the sweet spot for me!

best rules video i've seen so far! learning with fun. nice dude!! more plz. :)

I absolutely love Mutate. It's not too hard to understand once you get the hang of it.. Yes, there are plenty of moments where mutate is wierd but it's not hard to understand on the surface. You combine the text on the cards, choosing one of their stats to keep. Super weird, fun mechanic. Another mechanic I really wish they'd bring back is Bloodrush. I loved that mechanic themeatically.

WoTC - "regenerate is too complex so we replaced it with UET indestructible" Also WoTC - "haha mutate goes brrrr"

Mutating a stack with a hexproof in it is how you lose friends

And now Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief is a thing. Copying mutate spells was already possible, but now it can be your commander.

I never used or seen mutate being used IRL so I never realized how messed up and confusing mutate is.

love your channel cant wait for the next upload ❤

Hey fish love the video keep it up ^^

First of all,I MISSED YOU SO MUCH DUDE. and yes, mutate is mess and I love it for that

The joke with the "cant mutate onto humans" is you can literally mutate onto any other humanoid creature, elfs, dwarfs, halflings, you name it.

Mutate is the Panglacial wurm of mechanics

Thank goodness you said it. Everyone says it’s not complicated, because they’ve only ever played it on Arena. In Paper it’s a memory nightmare. And when I ask specific questions, people don’t really known what would happen.

Clone army of non-legendary creatures with planewaker ability's mutate can do that.

i love this mechanic, fun to hear about some of the weirder aspects of it

Man, now there's Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief to think about too with mutate. And if a mutates stack is blinked it comes back as each individual creature on the battlefield and no longer as one big stack. This is why I love this mechanic.

My favourite thing to do in commander is mutate parcelbeast onto a land, and then progenitor mimic the land to get a bunch of lands that can tap and draw a card.

Cover the Mill mechanic and how it has evolved over time. Might be fun to see how Mill, discard, draw cards differ in interaction with one’s library.

In trying to communicate the weirdness and complexity of the Mutate mechanic... you have explained far better than anyone, ever.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who knew mutate made stuff unlegendary That’s why I run mutate in my tatsunari deck

That mechanic is basically Splice onto Creature. One of those things you were not supposed to make for complexity issues and they still did it. There’s a reason why Splice was only with Arcane so you could control the amount of possible interactions between them instead of this mutate Mess.

honestly, seeing the planeswalker one actually work is cool. Gotta go try that sometime.

I have seriously been trying to figure this out for 2 years now, our playgroup was so confused about the rulings surrounding this we figured it be smarter to open pandora's box than hit the gatherer again trying to make sense of this

Well now. That's how I keep my planeswalker alive is by making it a creature with a flash mutate

As a mutate player I will save this video as "reasons to love mutate"

The biggest mutate fail is being unable to mutate changelings (because they are also human)

the planeswalker thing is the basis of an entire deck I'm working on

This video has strong jan Misali energy, and I mean that as a compliment.

Did ‘mutate’ come from the me(n)talworks of the silverborderland that was ‘augment’ by chance? I think it came from there. With that said, mutate is far more complicated and headache inducing.

Once I learned about bestow, I thought, “oh it’s like mutate, but kinda better?” and I knew that was how I could explain it to others lol

Ok, NOW I need to make a mutate deck

Haha, I quite like the energy and content of this. Specially @0:47, it just speaks to me. I'll keep an eye on you.

0:44 I made an entire edh deck around mutating and copying that jellybean, and it does wonders

I do enjoy mutate. I think it's cool but man is it janky

Mutate is emrakul trying to get us to comprehend her gifts

Building a tatsunari deck got so much more fun when I realized how mutate works with legendary creatures omg😁

when i started playing magic, my first deck was the ikoria mutate one. I had fun learning that as a new player :D

What is this? A FishMTG Upload? Is it Christmas? 😆😆😆 Quality vid

Illuna is my favorite commander. I love mutate in all its jank and shenanigans and brokenness.

1:40 You mention mutating underneath tokens, but I'd just like to mention that if you mutate on top of a token then it's no longer a token. So, if you have something like Progenitor Mimic, then you can mutate on top of the tokens created by Progenitor Mimic and then those no-longer-a-token-mutate-stacks will be able to copy themselves at the beginning of your upkeep.

This was most definitely a mechanic that was designed with Arena in mind.

If you mutate onto a creature and have ivy, gleeful spellthief, you can also mutate onto her

Tbh though Mutate made it easier for me to learn the Digimon TCG

I was that guy that played mutate when Ikoria released, mostly it was just the most competent deck I could put Godzilla cards in. I once had a guy concede because he got annoyed at how mutate worked. So at his end step I flash mutate the octopus, he kills the creature I targeted in response. I say ok, and put that creature in the yard and the octopus on the field. He immediately starts going that the octopus is also dead and I tell him it's not as that's not how mutate works. Well he calls a judge over and the judge goes yeah that's how mutate works. He scoops the entire set in game 1 over it lol.

Etrata, the hard-counter to Mutate. Also, Mutate is so complicated, it's high on the Storm Scale.

Now with Unfinity, there's also the prospect of animating and mutating an Attraction, using Animate Object and mutating the object you put onto the field, using the photocopy card that requires a device to represent your copy token to mutate your phone, and "best" of all, use Form of the Approach of the Second Sun to put yourself into your library, then do something to put _yourself_ into play ("you" are a planeswalker card in this instance; it's confirmed) then animate yourself, _and you can now induce mutations within YOURSELF._

This is me trying to figure out mutate interactions while building a 5c mutate deck with sliver hivelord

i ran a sultai mutate deck with a lot of copy and cloning effects, the commander being Volrath Shapestealer. it was a rules nightmare, which was the point

This reminds me of how fun my mutate commander deck is

"no catgirls" jokes on you, there are quite a few of those already. that last kamigawa set added like 2 dozen in fact.

I only just saw Mutate for the first time a couple of hours ago and now I'm learning you can do weird mutant things with Planeswalkers. Time to pull out some dumb shit at game night.

The planeswalker deck Oko was the main way I made planeswalkers into mutate stacks. It's a weird planeswalker too it's worth a little look, like it's too expensive obviously it's a planeswalker deck card, but it's cool.

Thank you RU-vid for recommending me this

WotC: "banding and regenerate are too complicated for standard" Also WotC:

"You can't mutate onto humans." Unless that human is Gideon.

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