The Ooze
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #177 (rare)
- Price
- $4.05 USD
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token for each +1/+1 counter on it. (A Mutagen token is an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a Mutagen token.
The Ooze has 2 printings, first in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2026). EDHREC ranks it #4,004 among Commander cards. It appears most in Heroes in a Half Shell decks (1,780 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run The Ooze most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Heroes in a Half Shell: 1,780 decks
- Super Shredder: 1,060 decks
- Jenova, Ancient Calamity: 853 decks
- Marchesa, the Black Rose: 820 decks
- Donatello, the Brains // Leonardo, the Balance: 497 decks
- Donatello, Mutant Mechanic: 476 decks
- Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder: 472 decks
- Mikey & Don, Party Planners: 445 decks
Often played with The Ooze
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Some spells and abilities that create Mutagen tokens require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Mutagen token won't be created.
- : Mutagen tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Mutagen and the ability "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery."
- : If enough -1/-1 counters are put on a creature you control at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Mutagen tokens you get. For example, if there are three +1/+1 counters on a creature and it gets four -1/-1 counters, you'll get three Mutagen tokens. That's because The Ooze's triggered ability checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.