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Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Legendary Creature — Elemental Otter Shapeshifter2 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

Two copy effects that most designers keep on separate cards get bolted together here, and the seams are the interesting part. Every instant or sorcery you cast can turn this into a clone of up to one of your nonlegendary creatures until end of turn, and that nonlegendary clause is the guardrail that keeps the whole thing from folding on itself: copy a legend and the legend rule forces you to put one of the pair into the graveyard, so the effect is deliberately fenced off from your commander and its allies. On top of the target's stats the clone borrows myriad, and the timing there is fussier than it reads. Myriad tokens arrive already tapped and attacking, skipping the declare-attackers step entirely; they do not fire "whenever this creature attacks" triggers, so the payoff is not a chain of replayed combat triggers around the table but raw duplicated bodies aimed at each opponent. In a duel myriad does nothing whatsoever, which marks this as a multiplayer-first design, built to fan damage across a pod rather than close out a one-on-one. The copy expires at end of turn and the tokens are exiled at end of combat, so this is a burst rebuilt each turn by spending another card, never a standing army. That cadence plants it firmly in the blue-red spellslinger lineage: sculpt the game with cheap interaction, then cash each cast into a temporary swarm shaped by whatever board you have assembled.

Muddle, the Ever-Changing (soc)
SOC · #5mythic
Pricing
Normal: $1.72
Foil: $0.77
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Muddle becomes a copy of up to one target nonlegendary creature you control until end of turn, except it has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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