Is Ray Fillet, Man Ray good in Commander?

Ray Fillet, Man Ray

Legendary Creature — Fish Mutant

Flying
When Ray Fillet enters, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

CMC: 4
Mana cost
Color identity: U
Rarity: uncommon
Set: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price: $0.18
EDHREC rank: #19807

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Ray Fillet, Man Ray lands as a 4/4 with flying and the ability to tax or punish every spell your opponents cast — that kind of sustained pressure on a single card is the whole reason you're running it. Berta, Wise Extrapolator turns that tax engine into a mana engine, making Ray Fillet one of the cleaner payoffs in the Shark tribal space.

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, Ray Fillet, Man Ray operates as a soft tax piece that scales with the number of opponents, meaning its disruption is proportionally stronger in four-player pods than in any 1v1 format. Outside Commander, it's legal across Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, but the effect is narrower in those formats where you're facing one opponent and the tax rarely generates enough friction to matter. The flying body keeps it from being a blank in creature-based matchups, but Ray Fillet is firmly a Commander card — the multiplayer math is where it actually earns its slot.

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