Irma, Part-Time Mutant
Legendary Creature — Human Mutant Shapeshifter
At the beginning of combat on your turn, Irma becomes a copy of up to one other target creature you control, except her name is Irma, Part-Time Mutant and she has this ability. Then put a +1/+1 counter on her.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Price
- $4.89
- EDHREC rank
- #5528
Irma, Part-Time Mutant hits the board as a token-generation engine that rewards you for already doing what creature-heavy decks want to do — and the payoff scales fast when your commander is something like Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart, where every new creature matters. The cost is real: you need a critical mass of the right creature types to unlock her, and she does nothing in a vacuum the way Akki Battle Squad demands board presence before it fires.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart runs Irma, Part-Time Mutant in nearly 70% of its decks because Irma's token output feeds directly into the counters-and-synergy engine Leonardo rewards — more bodies means more triggers, more attacks, more value.
The Celestial Toymaker
The Celestial Toymaker picks up Irma, Part-Time Mutant as a creature-generation piece that populates the board with targets for its game-warping shenanigans, turning Irma's output into fuel for Toymaker's control-and-chaos strategy.
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist wants every opponent drowning in tokens, and Irma, Part-Time Mutant contributes to that plan by generating creatures that feed the shared-token politics Gor Muldrak manipulates.
Edea, Possessed Sorceress
Edea, Possessed Sorceress benefits from the creature churn that Irma, Part-Time Mutant provides, using that steady stream of bodies as raw material for Edea's sacrifice and reanimation loops.
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima appears in the widest pool of decks here, and Irma, Part-Time Mutant slots in as a token producer that keeps the battlefield stocked for Jin Sakai's combat-focused, honor-based aggro plan.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Irma, Part-Time Mutant actually lives — the 100-card singleton format gives you the density of synergistic creature types and the long game needed to make her token generation snowball. Legacy and Vintage are both legal on paper, but creature-type synergy packages of this kind don't compete with the raw power available in those formats. Oathbreaker is a plausible home if you're building around a planeswalker that rewards wide boards, though the smaller deck size narrows your consistency. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, so the Commander table is the real intended destination.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Irma, Part-Time MutantAkki Battle Squad
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite combat phases; Infinite untap of modified creatures you control
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Current price
$4.89 cheap tier
At $4.89, Irma, Part-Time Mutant sits in the cheap tier — accessible enough that she's not a barrier to entry even in budget builds. Given her concentration in Turtle-tribal and Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart lists, demand is niche enough that the price reflects casual appeal rather than a card threatening to spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Akki Battle Squad
- Leonardo, the Balance // Michelangelo, the Heart
- The Celestial Toymaker
- Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
- Edea, Possessed Sorceress
- Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.