Protean Thaumaturge
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Human Wizard
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death #306 (rare)
- Price
- $0.55 USD
Constellation — Whenever an enchantment you control enters, you may have this creature become a copy of another target creature, except it has this ability.
Protean Thaumaturge has 5 printings, first in Theros Beyond Death (2020). EDHREC ranks it #10,700 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor decks (3,884 on EDHREC). It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Protean Thaumaturge most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor: 3,884 decks
- Tatsunari, Toad Rider: 947 decks
- Zur, Eternal Schemer: 774 decks
- Eutropia the Twice-Favored: 197 decks
- Hakim, Loreweaver: 158 decks
- Ramses Overdark: 98 decks
- Rayne, Academy Chancellor: 93 decks
- Yargle, Goliath of Otaria: 1 decks
Often played with Protean Thaumaturge
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If something becomes a copy of Protean Thaumaturge, it also has the constellation ability.
- : A constellation ability triggers whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control for any reason. Enchantments with other card types, such as enchantment creatures, will also cause constellation abilities to trigger.
- : Protean Thaumaturge’s ability causes it to become a copy indefinitely. It doesn’t expire during the cleanup step or if the target creature leaves the battlefield after the ability has resolved.
- : An Aura spell that has an illegal target when it tries to resolve doesn’t resolve and is instead put into its owner’s graveyard. It doesn’t enter the battlefield, so constellation abilities don’t trigger.
- : If an effect begins to apply to Protean Thaumaturge before it becomes a copy of another creature, that effect will continue to apply.
- : Protean Thaumaturge copies the printed values of the target creature, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on that creature or effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Notably, it won’t copy effects that made the target creature become a creature.
- : If an enchantment creature enters the battlefield under your control, Protean Thaumaturge’s ability can target it.
- : If Protean Thaumaturge copies a creature that’s copying something else, it will become whatever the target is copying.