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Can you mutate a Commander?

Commander is where mutate gets even trickier so it's doubly important to be well researched and understand the mechanic. If your commander is mutated into a pile then the merged creature does commander damage and counts as your commander regardless of its location in the pile.
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Is a mutated commander still a commander?

If you mutate a creature on top of your commander, does it still count as your commander for the purposes of assigning commander damage? Yes, it is still your commander.
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What happens when you exile a mutated commander?

What happens when a mutated creature leaves the battlefield? If a mutated creature leaves the battlefield, all of its components go to the appropriate zone. So if it dies, each card ends up in the graveyard.
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Can you make any creature a commander?

Players may choose either a legendary creature, or a planeswalker that has an ability allowing it to be chosen as a commander. Players may choose a pair of them if each has the partner ability. In Brawl, any planeswalker can be designated as a commander.
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What is the best sultai mutate commander?

1 Otrimi, The Ever-Playful

The most popular mutate commander thanks to being the face of the mutate commander reconstructed deck, Otrimi, The Ever-Playful is a fantastic mutate commander. It's in Sultai colors, which has the highest selection of mutate cards to choose from.
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Mutate Is A Weird Mechanic

Do commanders have to be creatures?

For a card to be considered a commander in Magic: the Gathering, it must fulfill one of the two following criteria: The card must be a legendary creature; or, The card must state, “This card can be your Commander”.
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Can a Commander be not a legendary?

As Commander has become an established format, the Commander Rules Committee (RC) ruled that a commander must be a legendary creature.
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Can you have a colorless Commander?

The rules of Commander are the same for colorless commanders as for any other colors. This means playing with only colorless cards. And that's what makes building a deck around a colorless commander very hard, but also very fun.
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What is the weakest Commander color?

White's largely regarded as the weakest color in commander. This is due, in part, to white being forced to hide its power. White lacks the card advantage, card selection, and mana ramp of other colors.
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Does mutate get Commander tax?

Conversation. A lot of people asking about Mutate and Commander Tax. I just double checked with head rules person @EliShffrn and he confirmed that Mutate DOES NOT bypass Commander Tax. Sorry all, you still have to pay it.
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Who is the strongest Commander in MTG?

These are the best MTG commanders:
  • Edgar Markov.
  • Kess, Dissident Mage.
  • Kenrith, the Returned King.
  • Muldrotha, the Gravetide.
  • Korvold, Fae-Cursed King.
  • Tymna the Weaver.
  • Niv-Mizzet, Parun.
  • The Gitrog Monster.
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Can prismatic bridge be your Commander?

The Prismatic Bridge is the true commander for this deck. Your early game will likely be spent trying to create a land base that allows you to tap for and get it out as soon as possible. Players know how powerful this is, so be sure to look out for potential opposing interaction when preparing to cast it.
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Can Krenko be a Commander?

Krenko, Mob Boss is the most powerful goblin commander out there. It's also one of the most popular commanders overall with nearly 4,200 decks online. Its power comes from its activated ability, which doubles the number of goblins you have in play by creating a lot of 1/1 tokens.
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Are 40K cards legal in Commander?

Warhammer 40,000 Commander cards with the 40K set code numbered 1–176 are permitted in the Commander, Legacy, and Vintage formats. Cards with the 40K set code numbered 181–317 and 322 are reprinted cards legal for play in any format where a card with the same name is permitted.
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What happens if you chaos warp a Commander?

Chaos Warp is a card from the original Commander decks that debuted in 2011, and is a classic Red solution to a problem: it might give you an entirely new problem, but it solved the first one! Chaos Warp forces a permanent's controller to shuffle it into their library, then flip the top card of their library over.
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What happens if dark imposter exiles a Commander?

Once Dark Impostor leaves the battlefield, it will no longer have the activated abilities of the creature cards exiled with it. If it returns to the battlefield, it will be a new Dark Impostor with no connection to those exiled cards.
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How does Volo work with mutate?

When you mutate a creature, you can put the mutate creature underneath its target, preserving the creature type of the original creature. Plus, when you cast a creature for its mutate cost, targetting a Sylvan Caryatid for example, Volo will make a copy of the creature being cast as usual.
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Is Commander 99 or 100?

Accepted answer #1. A commander deck has to be 99 cards + the commander, for a total of 100. It cannot be any more or any less. 903.5a Each deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including its commander.
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Are the power 9 banned in Commander?

The MTG Power 9 is so strong that most of the cards are only legal in the ultra high powered Vintage format, even finding their way onto the MTG Commander banlist and Legacy MTG banlists. Each one of these cards is also on the MTG Reserved List, making a full reprint close to impossible.
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Do cloned commanders do Commander damage?

Because of the properties that a commander possesses, only the original commander has the properties of a commander (rule 903.3). This means that copies of your commander don't deal commander damage.
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Who is the strongest 1 Commander in one piece?

1 Marco The Phoenix, Whitebeard Pirates' First Division Commander.
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What is the strongest color in MTG?

Blue is defined by knowledge and intellectualism, and it has the signature ability to draw and manipulate cards. This is among the most powerful things you can do in competitive Magic and has made blue historically the strongest color (which becomes more apparent in formats where cards from the 1990's are legal).
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Who are the strongest Commander archetypes?

Tymna the Weaver + Thrasios, Triton Hero

Thrasios, Triton Hero and Tymna the Weaver are the archetypal tier 1 commanders. They've been on top of the Commander game since way before Flash was banned.
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Can you have 2 prismatic pipers as Commander?

The Prismatic Piper - Commander Legends (CMR)

Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
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What cards are illegal in MTG Commander?

  • Ancestral Recall.
  • Balance.
  • Biorhythm.
  • Black Lotus.
  • Braids, Cabal Minion.
  • Channel.
  • Chaos Orb.
  • Coalition Victory.
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