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Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Legendary Creature — Elemental Otter Shapeshifter · {2}{U}{R} · Red/Blue commander

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.)

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What Muddle, the Ever-Changing actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever 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.

What a Muddle, the Ever-Changing deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• instants and sorceries (each one turns it into a copy of your best nonlegendary creature, with myriad)
• nonlegendary creatures with attack or enter triggers worth copying across the table

The Muddle, the Ever-Changing deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 14× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 28× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Muddle, the Ever-Changing

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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