Mercurial Transformation
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery — Lesson
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #47 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.32 USD
Until end of turn, target nonland permanent loses all abilities and becomes your choice of a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1 or a blue Octopus creature with base power and toughness 4/4.
Mercurial Transformation has 1 printing, first in Strixhaven: School of Mages (2021). EDHREC ranks it #17,572 among Commander cards. It appears most in Iroh, Grand Lotus decks (1,255 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Mercurial Transformation most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Iroh, Grand Lotus: 1,255 decks
- Gran-Gran: 333 decks
- Master Pakku: 84 decks
- Katara, Seeking Revenge: 76 decks
- Sokka, Bold Boomeranger: 71 decks
- The Lion-Turtle: 19 decks
- Guru Pathik: 18 decks
- Glacian, Powerstone Engineer: 1 decks
Often played with Mercurial Transformation
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Although you may want to include Lessons in your sideboard if you’re playing with cards that instruct you to learn, Lesson cards can be included in your main deck like other instant or sorcery cards.
- : Lesson is a spell subtype found on some instant and sorcery cards in the Strixhaven set. The Lesson subtype has no special rules associated with it.
- : You choose Frog or Octopus as Mercurial Transformation resolves, not when you cast it.