Darksteel Mutation
Commander 2013 9 • uncommon
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Collector number
- 9
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Market price
- $1.87
What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.
Infinitely powerless.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Darksteel Mutation was introduced in the Commander 2013 product line, a series of preconstructed decks released by Wizards of the Coast to support the popular multiplayer Magic: The Gathering format. As a white enchantment, it represents a mechanical shift in the color pie, allowing players to neutralize a powerful creature by turning it into a colorless artifact with no abilities, mirroring the lore of the indestructible, glistening oil-tainted metal from the plane of Mirrodin.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Svetlin Velinov, who utilized a stark, metallic aesthetic to convey the transformation process. His design emphasizes the cold, rigid nature of the darksteel material, capturing the flavor of a creature being encased in an impenetrable shell. Upon its release, the card was widely received as a staple utility piece for white-based control decks, prized for its low mana cost and its ability to answer resilient threats that traditional destruction spells might otherwise miss.
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