The Ooze
The Ooze: Legendary Artifact, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Legendary Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)
- Released
- 2026-03-06
- Collector number
- 177
- Artist
- Gabriel Tanko
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About The Ooze
The Ooze is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare colourless legendary artifact from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT), an expansion set released in March 2026. It is collector number 177 in that set, with art by Gabriel Tanko. It costs {2} (two generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy and Gladiator. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $5.53 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
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.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $5.53 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Ooze by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of The Ooze
The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) #277 | Rare | 2026 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to The Ooze, newest first.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
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