Printlifter Ooze
Creature — Ooze
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature or another creature you control is turned face up, create a 0/0 green Ooze creature token with trample. The token enters with X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is the number of other creatures you control.
Disguise 
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor Commander
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #7998
Printlifter Ooze enters the battlefield as a copy of any face-down creature in play — a free shapeshifter that scales off whatever your opponents are hiding. In Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods decks, that payoff is immediate enough that it shows up in over 84% of lists.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods runs a morph-heavy creature base, and Printlifter Ooze copies any face-down permanent on the battlefield — meaning it enters as a 2/2 at minimum and upgrades the moment a better target appears.
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
Kaust, Eyes of the Glade cares about creatures entering face-down and turning face-up, and Printlifter Ooze feeds that engine while copying whatever the most valuable face-down permanent at the table happens to be.
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer draws a card the first time a face-down creature enters each turn, and Printlifter Ooze enters face-up as a copy — giving the deck a morph-adjacent body that fills curve slots without sacrificing synergy density.
Yedora, Grave Gardener
Yedora, Grave Gardener turns nontoken creatures dying into face-down Forest tokens, and Printlifter Ooze can copy those tokens to build a board of morphed-up land creatures ready to flip for value.
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
Vannifar, Evolved Enigma plays multiple disguise and morph creatures across Simic, and Printlifter Ooze slots in as a flexible copycat that mirrors whichever face-down permanent is currently doing the most work.
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 |
Printlifter Ooze is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but Commander is the only format where it meaningfully competes for a slot. Legacy and Vintage have no morph or disguise shell that wants a five-mana enters-as-a-copy effect — the bar for five-drops in those formats is brutally high and Printlifter Ooze doesn't clear it. In Commander, the card earns its keep in dedicated morph and disguise decks where face-down permanents are a recurring resource, not an occasional accident. Outside that archetype, it's too conditional to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Printlifter Ooze is firmly bulk — cheap enough to pick up on spec for any morph build without a second thought. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to move unless a new morph commander pushes the archetype into heavier rotation.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
- Kaust, Eyes of the Glade
- Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer
- Yedora, Grave Gardener
- Vannifar, Evolved Enigma
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.