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The Master, Transcendent

Legendary Artifact Creature — Mutant

When The Master enters, target player gets two rad counters.
{T}: Put target creature card in a graveyard that was milled this turn onto the battlefield under your control. It's a green Mutant with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses its other colors and creature types.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{B}{G}{U}
Color identity
BGU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Fallout
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4936
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The Master, Transcendent card art
The Master, Transcendent hits the table and immediately starts proliferating and cloning creatures every time you cast one — an engine that compounds fast, especially alongside Intruder Alarm, which untaps your board to chain activations into a full loop. The five-mana cost is real, but The Wise Mothman decks eat that cost alive because every mutation trigger feeds directly into the radiation-counter gameplan.

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The Wise Mothman

The Wise Mothman

67.7% of decks · synergy 0.60

The Wise Mothman spreads radiation counters whenever any player draws, and The Master, Transcendent doubles down by proliferating those counters every time a creature enters — two engines stacking on the same resource, which turns any token or clone into a board-wide -1/-1 pulse that snowballs within a turn or two.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where The Master, Transcendent lives — three opponents means three times the creature targets for clone triggers, and proliferate scales with however many counter-based synergies your pod is running. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but five mana for a value creature with no immediate protection doesn't fit either format's tempo. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card adjacent format worth mentioning: if your planeswalker shell wants proliferate redundancy, The Master slots in, though the 20-life pressure makes the five-mana ask tighter.

Key Combos

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Price Context

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Pricing data isn't available for The Master, Transcendent at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying in. Given the card's combo ceiling with Intruder Alarm and its near-70% inclusion rate in The Wise Mothman decks, demand is real — don't assume a low sticker price means low play value.

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