The Ooze
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it leaves the battlefield, create a Mutagen token for each +1/+1 counter on it. (A Mutagen token is an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
T: Exile target card from a graveyard. Create a Mutagen token.
Combos with The Ooze
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Basking Broodscale Arwen, Weaver of Hope Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Ashnod's Altar Stridehangar Automaton Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Basking Broodscale Good-Fortune Unicorn Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Metalwork Colossus Ashnod's Altar Arwen, Weaver of Hope Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite Mutagen tokens
- Infinite colorless mana
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Urza, Lord High Artificer Deadeye Navigator Arcbound Ravager Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Cast all spells in your library
- Exile your library
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Infinite Mutagen tokens
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite blue mana
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
Showing the 5 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
3 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-01-27
Some spells and abilities that create Mutagen tokens require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. The Mutagen token won't be created.
- 2026-01-27
Mutagen tokens are a kind of predefined token. Each one is a colorless artifact with the artifact subtype Mutagen and the ability "1, T, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery."
- 2026-01-27
If enough -1/-1 counters are put on a creature you control at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less (or the damage marked on it to be lethal), the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Mutagen tokens you get. For example, if there are three +1/+1 counters on a creature and it gets four -1/-1 counters, you'll get three Mutagen tokens. That's because The Ooze's triggered ability checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Ooze, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Betor, Ancestor's Voice | 1 | 1 | — |
| Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight | 1 | 1 | — |
| Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Orzhov 1 deck
- Abzan 1 deck
- Esper 1 deck
Every version of The Ooze
2 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Normal
- $4.14
- Foil
- $4.91
Extended Art
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Normal
- $6.18
- Foil
- $6.85
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Ooze — a name search across every version, for 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.