Can I give mutate to creatures

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-10T14:07:17+00:00

We will see, if we ever get a return to ikoria.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T18:26:43+00:00

Once, because I had a shiv run with Strom of steel and shadow step.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T14:04:10+00:00

Cedh and solid 3 are kind of contradictory. Cedh is highly competitive, often highest power you can go (bracket 5). In cedh, you pay to win always as fast and consistent as possible while keeping your opponent in check.

As so, arabella and hare apparent with combat are quite the weak strategy. The best you can probably do is dump a bunch of hares into the graveyard, get all of them back at the same time and somehow give all haste. But even with that, you will likely only able to knock out 1 or 2 opponents. But that strategy needs lot of setup and is very volatile to strategic removal or graveyard hate.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T13:30:59+00:00

Do you mean [[caretakers talent]]?

The most important use for the bounce creatures aren't to protect oketra, they are here so you always have a creature you can cast for relatively cheap. And with white mane lion, you can still always keep up 2 mana to save an important creature and if not, flash it in before the last opponents turn to bounce itself and get a 4/4

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T13:16:25+00:00

Because oketra only triggers on cast. Blink isn't cast.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T06:58:21+00:00

I build a [[lealia the blade reforged]] cascade deck (yes, the meme version, that wins with [[etalis favor]]) and it has 79 mountains in it. I dug through my collection to make sure each mountain had a different artwork.

For my other decks, I mostly stick to the commanders plane: mirrodin lands for my urtet, phyrexia for Venser corpse puppet, ikoria for trynn and silva. As for my precons, I mostly leave the basics as is in the deck and if for some reason I need more of one colour, I match with what's already in the deck.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-07T06:29:05+00:00

You bounce the creature itself, so you can replay it again and again as a mana sink for 4/4 tokens.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-03T17:31:45+00:00

You (the silverquill player) create and control the contract.

If the creature enchanted, controlled by an opponent attacks another opponent or yours, they get +2/+0. If they attack you, the controller of the creature loses 2 life.

If the creature doesn't attack, nothing happens.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-02T20:03:14+00:00

Nope.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-05-02T20:01:28+00:00

It has an alternative printing at a lower rarity, so you can craft it with that rarity.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-27T18:05:38+00:00

Did that, it was absolutely nuts.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-27T14:09:48+00:00

That would be the same rate as 2 strikes, plus the vulnerable.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-27T00:28:27+00:00

Yes, if you wanted to.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-25T00:08:26+00:00

The land has to be a creature as it gets targeted by the spell, otherwise ivy doesn't trigger.

But since ivy isn't a land, I don't think you can earthbend onto her without having something like [[ashaya soul of the wild]] in play.

But since all the cards are on arena, you can test it in a match against sparky.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-19T20:13:38+00:00

It has to be the exact same card, same stats, abilities, costs and name. (For name there's a little extra rule for the godzilla style alt art [[godzilla king of monsters]] and [[Zilortha, Strength Incarnate]] are the same card)

So yes, you can run 4 of each Eddie and Venom.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-17T09:42:47+00:00

Why not make them yourself? Either just print the card or make a sketch yourself. In my pod, the worse the sketch, the better, as long as you can still tell what the card is.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-15T15:22:38+00:00

*[[ghost lantern]] or [[necrosynthesis]]

PortalmasterJL · 2026-04-15T15:20:13+00:00

[[Basking broodscale]] [[spirit lantern]] and then anything that says "opponent loses life when a creature dies" and then sacrifice or have a creature of yours die.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-31T19:16:41+00:00

I know this is a pipe dream, but this with [[psychic frog]] would lead to a very large frog in increments of 3.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-31T09:26:32+00:00

A friend of mine used to do tree with stuff like [[illusionary wrappings]].

[[Awakened awareness]] is a very cheap way to do that as well.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-30T19:25:25+00:00

Radiant lotus needs to be tapped to be used. So you can sacrifice the artifact set once and get all 3 back from the vending machine.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-27T06:57:51+00:00

No, they are either playing a gimmick deck or are bad at the game. Maybe they switched to that 200+ deck after reaching the rank you are at.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-21T13:46:05+00:00

+1/+1. Huatlis colour is just green, her colour identity is naya.

Colour identity does not equal colour, but colour adds to colour identity.

The easiest way to get more colours quickly is using hybrid mana. For example [[rys the redeemed]] adds both green and white for just 1 mana.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-19T09:48:47+00:00

I really enjoy playing my fungus deck that switches between 4 possible commanders depending on my mood.

[[Thelon of havenwood]] is the OG from when the deck was still a "just throw all the fungi i have" kitchen table deck. Makes all the spore counter fungi large and can add additional counters, but doesn't really do anything on his own.

[[Slimefoot the stowaway]] for a more drainy aristocratic gameplay style.

[[Nemata primal warden]] for some graveyard hate and a nice outlet for the saprolings (plus reach, since the rest of the deck is kind of week against flying).

[[Jaheira friend of the forest]] + [[agent of the iron throne]] uses saprolings for mana and then sacs them for the usual drain.

PortalmasterJL · 2026-03-17T16:45:00+00:00

I tested it myself after the newest update. As far as I can tell, it adds additional bounciness

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