GreenLegendary Creature — Lizard MutantMona Lisa, Ever Adaptable
Mana value4Rank#15,212
The Commander
Whenever a player casts a creature spell, you create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "
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, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with cheap creatures—your own and your opponents'—to manufacture a steady stream of Mutagen tokens, then convert those artifact tokens into +1/+1 counters to grow a dominant board or feed counter/artifact synergies. You ramp early, deploy a counters payoff, and snowball every creature spell cast at the table into permanent stat gains.
Strengths
- Generates value passively off every player's creature spells, scaling hard in creature-heavy pods
- Mutagens are artifact tokens, enabling artifact-sacrifice, Treasure-style, and affinity synergies on top of counters
- Mono-green gives unmatched ramp and access to the best +1/+1 counter and trample payoffs
- Self-sufficient engine that doesn't require your own spells to trigger
Weaknesses
- Slow to close games without a dedicated payoff—counters alone can be grindy
- Mono-green lacks interaction, removal, and protection for the commander
- Mutagen activation is sorcery-speed and one counter at a time, so it's mana/time intensive
- Heavily reliant on board presence; a wrath sets you back badly
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Doubles the counters each Mutagen places, turning a slow trickle into rapid growth.
- Branching Evolution — Multiplies +1/+1 counters from Mutagens and every other source for explosive scaling.
- Cathars' Crusade — Each creature you play adds counters, stacking with the Mutagen engine for runaway boards.
- Ozolith, the Shattered Spire — Adds extra counters and protects your investment from board wipes.
- The Ozolith — Banks counters when creatures die, preserving your Mutagen value through removal.
- Doubling Season — Doubles both the counters Mutagens place and any token generation, accelerating everything.
- Inkmoth Nexus — Converts your pile of counters into a fast infect/poison kill.
Upgrade Path
Add counter doublers (Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, Doubling Season) and proliferate effects to make each Mutagen worth far more, then include resilience like The Ozolith and Heroic Intervention to survive wraths. Cap the deck with a decisive finisher—Craterhoof Behemoth, Pathbreaker Ibex, or Triumph of the Hordes—so your accumulated counters actually close games. Prioritize fast green ramp (Sol Ring, Carpet of Flowers, mana dorks) to deploy your engine and pay the sorcery-speed activation costs ahead of the table.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun-style finishers (Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede) for one big swing
- ▸Infect/poison via Inkmoth Nexus or Triumph of the Hordes loaded with counters
- ▸Grinding out a massively oversized board and beating down with trample
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — Mutagens are a renewable counter engine that pairs with doublers and counter payoffs.
- Artifacts — Mutagen tokens are artifacts, fueling affinity, artifact-sac, and improvise effects.
- Go-Wide Tokens — Cheap creatures both trigger Mona Lisa and provide bodies to pump with counters.
- Stompy/Aggro — Pile counters onto evasive threats and trample over the table.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (G), by popularity.
