The Kaijube

The Mutate Cube

Introduction

• Theme: Mutate, Enemy color and wedge focus
• Power level: Medium-low. This is not an environment where you can play Moxen.
• Construction Quirk 1: Many mutate cards have multiple copies, mostly the lower rarity ones.
• Construction Quirk 2: No Humans are allowed in the cube.
• Construction Quirk 3: Lee started designing his own mutate cards and enablers.

Mutate

This cube's bread and butter. The cube isn't entirely about mutate, but every color has a good number of mutate creatures as well as creatures that are good to mutate onto. Some colors - mostly in the Sultai trio - are much better at utilizing the mutate-specific triggers.

One thing about mutate is that, if you didn't draft Ikoria, you probably don't realize that you can't mutate onto Human creatures. That made some construction of this cube... difficult. If you look at any cube, a large majority of the white creatures are humans. For this cube, we decided not to have any humans at all. Partly to make it easy on the drafters, and partly as an added challenge.

And some of the best part of mutate is what happens when you interact with a mutate stack. Some fan favorites:

Blinking a mutated stack exiles all the creatures in the stack, and then returns them all to the battlefield unmutated. Basically, the mutated creature falls apart. Similarly, Lesser Masticore's persist trigger would bring back Masticore and everything that was mutated onto it with a -1/-1 counter.

Copying a mutated creature copies EVERYTHING. It's essentially the whole mutate stack, except since the clone is only one card, it doesn't count for having mutated before. So cards like Auspicious Starrix wouldn't find any past mutations.

When a mutated creature dies, Mimic Vat exiles the entire stack of mutate creatures. Then when you activate the Vat, you pick one of the creatures you've exiled to create a token copy of it.