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Mutable Explorer

Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, create a tapped Mutavault token. (It's a land with "{T}: Add {C}" and "{1}: This token becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.")

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed Promos
Price
$3.89
EDHREC rank
#6068
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Mutable Explorer card art
Mutable Explorer enters as a copy of any creature you control, then keeps reshaping itself every time a creature enters your battlefield — all for three mana. In Springheart Nantuko shells it triggers its own loop, and Voja, Jaws of the Conclave turns every copy into a counters-and-draw engine that compounds faster than opponents can answer it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Voja, Jaws of the Conclave

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave

14.7% of decks · synergy 0.13

Voja, Jaws of the Conclave cares about Wolves and Elves entering the battlefield, and Mutable Explorer copies whichever creature type does the most work on any given turn — so every new creature that lands draws cards, adds counters, and produces another trigger without requiring a dedicated payoff slot.

02
Muerra, Trash Tactician

Muerra, Trash Tactician

12.7% of decks · synergy 0.12

Muerra, Trash Tactician wants a steady stream of expendable creatures to sacrifice, and Mutable Explorer's ability to clone the most relevant body on the board each time a creature enters means it fills whatever role the board needs — fodder, anthem target, or engine piece — while keeping Muerra's sacrifice outlet fed.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Mutable Explorer does its real work — multiplayer games run long enough for its continuous mutation trigger to compound, and the 100-card singleton format means the decks that want it most (token doublers, creature-type synergies, aristocrats) are exactly where it lands. In Modern and Pioneer it's legal but competing against faster clocks and more efficient threats, so it only shows up in dedicated go-wide or clone shells where the enters-the-battlefield chain is the actual win condition. Standard gives it room to breathe against a slower field, making it a genuine build-around in the right creature-heavy list. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to ignore it entirely.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.89 cheap tier

At $3.89, Mutable Explorer sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include without much deliberation, high enough that it's already on players' radars. Cards with this kind of open-ended clone text tend to hold steady once they find a home in established Commander archetypes, so the floor feels more reliable than the ceiling.

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