Darksteel Mutation
Darksteel Mutation: Enchantment - Aura, Secrets of Strixhaven Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Enchantment - Aura
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
- Released
- 2026-04-24
- Collector number
- 142
- Artist
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Commander rank
- 581 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Enchant
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About Darksteel Mutation
Darksteel Mutation is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white enchantment from Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC), a Commander product released in April 2026. It is collector number 142 in that set, with art by Daniel Ljunggren. It costs {1}{W} (one generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Commander 2013 (2013) to Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.31 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.31 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Darksteel Mutation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Darksteel Mutation
Darksteel Mutation has been printed in 8 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1836 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #21 | Uncommon | 2023 |
| Commander Masters (CMM) #623 | Uncommon | 2023 |
| Crimson Vow Commander (VOC) #84 | Uncommon | 2021 |
| Commander 2021 (C21) #87 | Uncommon | 2021 |
| The List (PLST) #CMA-9 | Uncommon | 2019 |
| Commander Anthology (CMA) #9 | Uncommon | 2017 |
| Commander 2013 (C13) #9 | Uncommon | 2013 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Darksteel Mutation, newest first.
- The enchanted creature will be only an artifact and a creature, not any other card types. It will be only an Insect, not any other creature types.
- In some rare cases, the creature may have subtypes other than creature types before becoming enchanted with Darksteel Mutation. If it had any other artifact subtypes (such as Equipment), it will retain those. If it had any subtypes other than artifact types and creature types (such as Shrine), it won't retain those.
- Darksteel Mutation overwrites any previous effects that set the enchanted creature's power or toughness to a specific value. Any such effects that start to apply after Darksteel Mutation entered the battlefield will work normally.
- Darksteel Mutation overwrites the printed power and toughness of the enchanted creature, as well as any characteristic-defining abilities that define power and/or toughness.
- However, Darksteel Mutation does not overwrite effects that change the enchanted creature's power or toughness without setting it to a specific value (such as the ones created by Giant Growth or Glorious Anthem). It also won't overwrite the effect of counters.
- The creature will keep any supertypes it previously had. Notably, if Darksteel Mutation is enchanting a legendary creature, that creature will continue to be legendary. Also, if it's enchanting a commander, that creature will continue to be a commander.
- Darksteel Mutation causes the enchanted creature to lose all abilities except indestructible at the time it becomes enchanted. Any abilities the creature gains after that point will work normally.
- Darksteel Mutation doesn't affect the enchanted creature's colors, if any. It will continue to be whatever color or colors it was before Darksteel Mutation entered the battlefield.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Darksteel Mutation is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.
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