Question about "Number of times this creature mutated"
Asked by lil_cheez 1 year ago
Hiya folks!
I've been building a mutate commander deck and while looking for possible corner-cases, I've been stumbled with the following:
If a mutated creature "loses all abilities" (for example is enchanted with Lignify or Kenrith's Transformation), and I try to mutate on it something that counts the number of times the creature mutated (like Porcuparrot), does the counting happens normally? The creature still knows how many times it mutated?
Additionally: If that same creature suffer future mutations, it will look like the "new" creature or it will still be suffering the effects of the aura?
Thanks in advance!
Rhadamanthus thank you so much for the detailed explanation. Helps a lot!
I might need to resume my studying of layers!
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
The counting works normally. Every time you use mutate to merge something onto that creature, it has "mutated". This is just a fact about events in the game, not anything to do with what abilities the creature does or doesn't have.
To the additional question: the effects of things like Lignify and Kenrith's Transformation will continue to overwrite the new mutations. In the system of "layers" used to determine an object's characteristics, certain types of effects are applied before others regardless of the order in which they happened in the game. For the specific layers relevant to your examples: characteristics resulting from merging are part of Layer 1, type-changing effects are Layer 4, color-changing is Layer 5, ability-removing is in Layer 6, and P/T setting is in Layer 7. The creature will continue to be a base 0/4 treefolk with no abilities in the case of Lignify, and a base 3/3 green elk with no abilities in the case of Kenrith's Transformation.
August 18, 2022 11:23 a.m.