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Mitotic Slime

Creature — Ooze

When this creature dies, create two 2/2 green Ooze creature tokens. They have "When this token dies, create two 1/1 green Ooze creature tokens."

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
DCI Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#9529
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Mitotic Slime card art
Mitotic Slime generates an absurd number of tokens on death — five bodies from one card the moment anything kills it — which makes it a natural engine piece in sacrifice and token-doubling shells. The six-mana cost is real, but Nim Deathmantle loops and Aeve, Progenitor Ooze storm counts make that investment pay back many times over.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Aeve, Progenitor Ooze

Aeve, Progenitor Ooze

42.0% of decks · synergy 0.41

Aeve, Progenitor Ooze storms out copies of every Ooze in play, and Mitotic Slime's cascading death triggers mean each sacrificed copy floods the board with additional Ooze tokens that feed the next storm count.

02
Thromok the Insatiable

Thromok the Insatiable

21.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Thromok the Insatiable feeds on creature count, and Mitotic Slime hands it five bodies from a single sacrifice — the cascading 2/2s and 1/1s spike Thromok's power to one-shot range faster than almost any other green creature at the same mana cost.

03
The Mimeoplasm

The Mimeoplasm

12.5% of decks · synergy 0.12

The Mimeoplasm can exile Mitotic Slime from a graveyard to enter as a massive threat, and the Slime's residual tokens in the bin give The Mimeoplasm extra +1/+1 counters to layer on top, turning one dead Slime into a commander that arrives ready to close the game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Mitotic Slime actually lives — the death-trigger recursion, sacrifice synergies, and token doublers that make it absurd are native to the format in a way competitive 60-card formats simply don't support. It's technically legal in Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, but six mana for a creature with no immediate board protection is nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand. Oathbreaker is the only other format worth mentioning, and there it functions the same way it does in Commander — useful in the right Ooze or sacrifice build, ignored everywhere else.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Kenrith, the Returned KingPhyrexian AltarMitotic Slime

Kenrith, the Returned KingPhyrexian AltarMitotic Slime

Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite death triggers; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Return all creature cards from all graveyards to the battlefield under your control; Infinite draw triggers for any number of opponents; Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for Mitotic Slime isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Historically it's been a bulk-rare pickup, and given that it sees play primarily in niche Ooze and sacrifice Commander builds rather than any competitive format, there's no pressure to rush an acquisition.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.