Mutagen Connoisseur
Creature — Vedalken Mutant
Flying, vigilance
This creature gets +1/+0 for each transformed permanent you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27737
Mutagen Connoisseur turns every Clue, Food, and Treasure you sacrifice into a +1/+1 counter on a creature, stacking fast in token-heavy artifact decks. The three-mana body is the cost — you need a steady sacrifice engine already running for this to pull weight.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mutagen Connoisseur is a Commander card through and through — the payoff requires the kind of sustained artifact sacrifice that only a dedicated 100-card singleton shell can build around consistently. In Modern or Pioneer, three mana for a vanilla-sized body with a conditional counter effect doesn't clear the competitive bar when faster threats dominate. Legacy and Vintage are even less hospitable; the card simply doesn't do enough at any point on the curve to compete. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where it's worth considering, but only if the planeswalker and signature spell already generate sacrificeable artifacts at volume.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Mutagen Connoisseur is pure bulk — the floor of what a Magic card costs to acquire. That price reflects demand accurately: it's a narrow build-around with no competitive crossover, so don't expect it to move.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.