Manifold Mouse
Creature — Mouse Soldier
Offspring 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, target Mouse you control gains your choice of double strike or trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10587
Manifold Mouse hands your attacking commander a free loot and a size boost every combat — on a one-mana body that costs almost nothing to slot in. It's a staple in Mabel, Heir to Cragflame builds specifically because the triggered loot fuels her equipment-matters engine, and it's worth running in any Boros or Naya aggro shell that swings with a legendary creature regularly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
Manifold Mouse appears in over 90% of Mabel, Heir to Cragflame decks because every attack trigger on Mabel chains directly into a loot, accelerating the search for her next equipment while simultaneously growing the Mouse into a threat.
Arthur, Marigold Knight
Arthur, Marigold Knight goes wide with tokens that attack in a pack, and Manifold Mouse converts that repeated combat pressure into card filtering while picking up counters that make it a legitimate finisher over a long game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Manifold Mouse is a role-player rather than a format staple — its ceiling is almost entirely determined by whether your commander attacks and cares about combat, which makes it a near-auto-include in the right decks and invisible in every other one. Outside Commander, the card is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but the effect — looting once per combat with a vanilla 1/1 body — is too low-impact for those formats' sideboards to care about. Aggro shells in those formats want turn-one plays that close games, not incremental card selection tied to attacking. Treat Manifold Mouse as a Commander-exclusive pickup unless you're deliberately building a synergy-heavy mouse tribal or equipment list in a lower-powered 60-card context.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Manifold Mouse isn't currently available in the index, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. Given its near-universal inclusion in Mabel, Heir to Cragflame lists and its recency, expect it to sit in the bulk-to-$2 range typical of synergistic uncommons and lower-rarity rares from recent sets — worth picking up a copy now if you're building the deck.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mabel, Heir to Cragflame
- Arthur, Marigold Knight
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.