Mutable Explorer
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Creature — Shapeshifter
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed Promos #186p (rare)
- Price
- $1.79 USD
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, create a tapped Mutavault token. (It's a land with "{T}: Add {C}" and "{1}: This token becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.")
Mutable Explorer has 3 printings, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). EDHREC ranks it #3,556 among Commander cards. It appears most in Homer, the Hermit decks (2,747 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mutable Explorer most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Homer, the Hermit: 2,747 decks
- Uugguu, the Omniplasm: 2,438 decks
- Voja, Jaws of the Conclave: 1,873 decks
- Beorn the Fierce: 1,607 decks
- Morophon, the Boundless: 1,378 decks
- The Notary Hobbits: 1,302 decks
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: 953 decks
- Clement, the Worrywort: 691 decks
Often played with Mutable Explorer
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Mutable Explorer's last ability creates a token that's a copy of the card Mutavault in the Oracle card reference. Official text for Mutavault can be found using the Gatherer card database at Gatherer.Wizards.com.
- : If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type (unless the effect says "in addition" or similar). It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.
- : The subtype Shapeshifter that appears on the type line is mostly there to reinforce the flavor. A creature card with changeling is just as much a Kithkin, a Goblin, a Merfolk, and a Brushwagg as it is a Shapeshifter.
- : Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.
- : If an effect causes a creature with changeling to lose all abilities, it will remain all creature types, even though it will no longer have changeling. This is because changeling applies before the effect that removes it.