Leyline of Mutation
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may pay rather than pay the mana cost for spells you cast.
Combos with Leyline of Mutation
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Morophon, the Boundless Spider-Byte, Web Warden Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements Toph, Hardheaded Teacher Abundance Sakashima of a Thousand Faces Infinite
- Cast all spells in your library
- Near-infinite storm count
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-09-20
If you cast a spell for another cost "rather than pay" its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it for any other alternative cost. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Abhorrent Oculus, those must be paid to cast the spell.
- 2024-09-20
A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.
- 2024-09-20
If you cast a spell for which mana may be spent as though it were mana of any color, you may cast it for Leyline of Mutation's second ability's alternative cost and still spend mana as though it were mana of any color.
- 2024-09-20
If a spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Leyline of Mutation, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marina Vendrell | 1 | 1 | — |
| Jodah, the Unifier | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 2 decks
Leyline of Mutation price history
The Duskmourn: House of Horror #188 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.37 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $0.26 | $0.37 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.25 | $0.37 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.37 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.28 | $0.38 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.38 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.38 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.38 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.39 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.39 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.39 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.39 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.40 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.30 | $0.40 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.41 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.41 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.41 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.41 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.41 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.41 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.41 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.41 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.41 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Leyline of Mutation
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.26
- Foil
- $0.37
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Normal
- $0.44
- Foil
- $0.40
Promo
Duskmourn: House of Horror Promos
- Foil
- $0.84
Extended Art
- Normal
- $0.48
- Foil
- $0.76
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Leyline of Mutation. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
