Accelerated Mutation
Instant
Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among permanents you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24336
Accelerated Mutation gives target creature +X/+X until end of turn where X is your highest-power creature's power — a potentially massive pump for one mana at instant speed. It's a niche combat trick that scales with board state, but that conditional ceiling and the sorcery-speed window it opens for opponents make it hard to run over more reliable pump spells.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Accelerated Mutation is a fringe combat trick in go-wide or Voltron strategies that can regularly field a high-power creature — think Atraxa or Titanoth Rex shells where the reference creature is already enormous. It sees virtually no play in Legacy or Vintage, where the card pool offers better tempo options and the creature-centric setup is too fragile. Pauper is its most plausible home outside Commander, where common-legal creatures can still hit respectable power levels and combat tricks carry real weight. In any 60-card format where it's legal, the dependency on board state is too unreliable for consistent results.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Accelerated Mutation is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a commons box, not a cart. That price is stable by definition: there's no demand driver that would move a conditional combat trick off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.