It's got a freaking T-Rex for an arm. Can't argue with that.
Also, great design overall.
Mekh
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(8 votes)
So many fun and unique possibilities, this guy fits Commander really well.
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
The coolest dinosaur-armed, graveyard-eating, face-beating, proliferating, opponent-hating creature ever.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
The coolest dinosaur-armed, graveyard-eating, face-beating, proliferating, opponent-hating creature ever.
ivanescalante
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This is my favorite commander of all this set. It’s hard to fear against a Dinosaur Jell-O but think about this; Remove a Triskelion and a Krosan Cloudscraper. Or remove a Simic Sky Swallower and put 11 +1/+1 counters given from a Polar Kraken. Or if you don’t want to full your deck with expensive mana cards, remove a Cephalid Inkshrouder and a Phyrexian Dreadnought. Definitely, this card is a jelly of pure fun flavor.
ratchet1215
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Best power-increaser to remove from a graveyard: Lord of Extinction. The characteristic-defining ability that sets his power applies in all zones. Have him copy an Etched Oracle with the Lord for uber cards or just a Triskelion to basically end the game.
Cyberium
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This reminds me of Spellweaver Helix, except it's for creature instead of sorceries. Black and blue are good at throwing selective creatures into graveyard and green often has the best fatties. A great combination for five mana.
Splizer
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Stromtide Leviathan copied with this with a super power-buff (Let's say, Death's Shadow) equals 21 islandwalking general damage. STAND BACK, ITS ""THE" MIMEOPLASM!!!!!
Played with Mimeoplasm at the pre-release; much better than what I had first expected. First off, the pre-built deck really helps him as it's centered around milling so that help get some key creatures in the grave. It's great having the ability to create such a unique and devastating creature. Turned him into a Dread Cacodemon thus wiping the board and then giving it 6 +1/+1 counters by exiling Archangel of Strife
Honestly wasn't too excited about this card and used Damia, Sage of Stone as my general the first game, who by the way is also a very solid general but I used her more defensively. But with Mimeoplasm, you really get to make one hell of an offensive juggernaut!
infernox10
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Probably the most fun general from the precons, simply since the chances of it being the same creature in two games is astronomical.
My only problem is that the Devour for Power precon promotes graveyard shenanigans while its commander desires to exile from graveyards.
Given, you're most likely going to target your opponents' yards, it's still a bit strang imho.
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A legendary that's only really legendary when used as a commander. It could be fun to have it come into play as itself (using graft or something so it has more then 0 toughness) and then play Clones and copy spells targeting him.
TehGoosenator
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
This guy and Eldrazi are best friends.
Mr.Freshness-Timmy
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
mycoloth and then something big. devour a buncha guys
ROBRAM89
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
"Since when is he a 'the'?" "You're twice the 'the' he ever was!"
I love most of all that this is the very rare three-color card that feels like all three of its colors. Especially rare in wedge colors.
DiZdelScar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
So, what happens when this guy becomes a copy of a creature with Persist?
devaking55
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ dulciusEXasperis hmm how did u wipe the board with dread cacodemon? it needs to be cast from your hand for its effect to take place.
armogohma
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I actually wanted to play Damia, Sage of Stone at the launch party, but forgot to switch this guy out. One Buried Alive later, I had a flying* 14/14 "Damia" as my commander.
I love this guy.
This card is incredibly wacky and fun at the same time that I wish very whole heartedly that they had replaced the titans for m12 with these commanders so we could play them in standard. I think a lot of people have already given plenty of ideas for combos. Note that it says any graveyard, not just your graveyard. You can use your opponents creatures as well. I personally love the idea of having a 20/20 acidic slime from exiling a lord of extinction, and then using an overwhelming stampede, or make it unblockable with whispersilk cloak.
Dr.Pingas
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I dislike how he becomes a straight copy, meaning it stops becoming Legendary and an Ooze. But that's mostly just personal flavor and semantic issues. Effect wise, he's extremely powerful and versatile, I just still feel like his "the second guy you eat is just a +1/+1 counter horse" effect was sort of a cop-out. It just makes the second guy feel like he's not really part of the action. Still fun to pull a turn-5 13/13 Iona because they milled it into the grave and you cycled your Eel. That's gotta be interesting to see.
Also, a note on the pre-con; word of the day was totally FLESHBAG!!!
EDIT: does Torpor Orb stop his effect? Based on how it's worded, I'm not sure if it's actually a triggered ability, or if the orb would only stop CIP/ETB abilities of the first card it exiles.
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm not sure about using this guy as a general, since you have to wait until you have two good creatures in the graveyard to really make use of it.
All of these have some way to get themselves into your graveyard by the time you could cast The Plaz. Obviously the first two of these are the best, since they're both biggest and cheapest, but in a 100 card deck, you want to have several other options, in case you don't get either of those.
Everybody loves mimeoplasm. In my play store, I recently hadan EDH game in which 3 of 4 had mimeoplasm as general. He satisfies both the Timmy and Johnny in you. "what creature should I pick for general? How about a creature that can be ANY creature with an extra boost?"
"Thank you mister horrible gelatinous blob!"
umumwhatshisname
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think i just pottied in my pants
Feralsymphony
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Character Bio: Little is known about the bizarre entity that crawls the world of Muraganda. The fang druids call it the Mimeoplasm, as it absorbs the traits of anything it engulfs. The saurid warriors of the south seek out the Mimeoplasm wherever it roams, believing it to be the key to a mysterious afterlife, hoping to see in it traces of their fallen loved ones. The elves of the tropics believe it to be part of nature's cycle, a way to channel death back into life. The scarwitches hiss when it approaches, seeing it as the ultimate enemy of the world. Whether it's a natural process or a malevolent force, the Mimeoplasm never fails to command respect.
ChibiZombieBunny
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As people have pointed out... Deaths Shadow is awesome for the counters... but use Hydra Omnivore, and you got a general that's doing 21 General damage to a player, and 21 regular damage to every other player (since it wouldn't be considered combat dame as I understand it)
Regardless, thats half their life
Loren_Lithium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I find this card to be incredibly overpowered. It's also the most fun I've ever had with one specific card. With all the different combinations that this card can make it will be an excellent addition to most multi-colored decks. Powerful... Yes. Broken... Almost. Fun... God yes. The only people who hate this card are the people who have been steam-rolled by it.
Phiddlesticks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of my favourite combos with this is Timbermare + Lord of Extinction (preferably when there are 16+ cards in all graveyards)
Not a lot of creatures have Haste and "evasion" like Timbermare does
Squab
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Should've been called "That card with the T-Rex arm."
Flavour text: "No matter what it imitates, it always has a T-Rex arm."
I never could tell if the mimeoplasm was keeping my karador deck around just to abuse my graveyard.
MakerofWorlds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Im thinking that I should use Primordial Hydra as the creature copy and a big fatty (choose any of them). That way, every turn you are doubling the amount of +1/+1 on him.
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This guy is such an awesome EDH general. I once made an Inkwell Leviathan/Nemesis of Reason hybrid monstrosity. If some better creatures come along as you mill for ten just sacrifice it and build a new one. Brilliant card design. Great art (A Dinosaur for an arm? EPIC! Not sure what its left arm is though) 5*
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why is it called THE mimeoplasm? just to make it legendary? I never thought an ooze could be legendary...oh yea, and that slime on the side of my fish tank is named Bob, and that stuff underneath the fridge is Joe...
also, can someone tell me how this would work? what if you exile a random fatty like krosan cloudscraper, and another mimeoplasm, so it comes into play with the second mimeoplasm's ability? yes, I know edh is singleton, but I'm just talking rules here. does that mean you can use his ability again, to exile two addition cloudscrapers? coming into play as a 39/39? and what if you exiled a third mimeoplasm, and so on? this guy could get crazy.
XTwistedsoulX
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Goblins of the flarg and squire. Take that potential!
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
He's an insane Infect general.
Kitty_the_Kat
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
If you run this guy, you need Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon and Nether Traitor. Combined with any fatty (Lord of Exctintion is my preferred fatty as he is scalable), either of these will end the game quick, used with Buried Alive and Intuition, he becomes a huge threat.
For extended game, you want to use this guy as a form of combo disruption, as EDH often operates out of the grave. Eat your opponents Titans, Praetors, and troublesome reoccuring creatures like Terastodon and Acidic Slime. These are also the preferred things to eat with Mimeoplasm if you intend to load him with Skithy because you only need to deal 10 damage, meaning all Titans would work as will most Praetors.
Fast kills are nice, so get those in to eliminate the anyone playing aggro or other Mimeoplasm users (other Mimeoplasms tend to disrupt your own play, so they're your first priority),Nether Traitor is great here because few people know what to expect until you start swinging away with a Hasty, Unblockable, beefy General. Nether Traitor is also great alongside Blood Ghast when you have Skullclamp on the board for reoccuring draw power for yourself.
Don't worry too much about loading your deck with tons of fatties just so your Mimeoplasm has something beefy to eat, just eat your opponent's creatures (they're bound to have strong enough creatures in the grave) and if they don't have anything, just let him sit to the side because that means you have more time to draw up alternate win conditions (Palinchron is useful here as he allows for a lot of infinite combos if he's played right).
Edit: Originally I opted to remove Triskelion because its just not that good of a combo for this guy (there are much more effective combos you can use that will also feed off your opponent's graveyards, as you have seen me explain already), but then I looked at it again and noticed if you gave him Infect with say.. Grafted Exoskeleton, then you can pretty much be a champ. Just unload your counters and snipe everyone for 10 damage and systematically remove them from the game. If you with to fully take advantage of the Infect damage you can also load in a Hydra Omnivore, as well as Psychosis Crawler and some X draw spells like Blue Sun's Zenith or Stroke of Genius.
/wall of text
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like that it doesn't even need to be two creatures from the same graveyard, and that it enables goofy and previously unplayable hijinks like Hellkite Overlord + Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Also, this card makes Sturdy Hatchling sort of playable, and it's a thematically perfect card to reanimate. :)
heavyterror
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Fatties I use: lord of extinction, krosan cloudscraper, leviathan, doomgape and maybe a mortivore or what have you. Power ten or bust.
Copy Targets: skithryx the blight dragon, dimir doppelganger, spinebiter, blighted agent, sutured ghoul, vorinclex voice o hunga. Everyone loves poison!
Express your creativity. Then annihilate the ignorant.
Axelle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Muraganda is a cool plane.
LordLamneth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is without a doubt the most fun, most versatile Commander I've used, or ever seen played. Want a 7/8 Vampire Nighthawk, or a 14/14 Vorosh, the Hunter, or a 16/16 Simic Sky Swallower? It's all possible with The Mimeoplasm. Adding Jace, Memory Adept helps give The Mimeoplasm lots of copy targets, whether you mill yourself or your opponent(s).
MisterAction
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is the coolest card I've seen in a long time. It combines my favorite ability of my two favorite colors (blue's copying and black's reanimation) and gives me an excuse to play green, a color that, while no less effective than any other, I've never felt was as fun to use. It's a nice change of pace to be controlling the giant monstrosity instead of anxiously trying to figure out how to keep it from pounding me into the dirt.
In actually using it, though, I've gotten a bit frustrated. I've never complained about cards "dying to removal" before, but it's a huge problem here. As excited as I am to copy all kinds of weird stuff, I rarely ever get a chance to attack before it gets taken out; not only is it a huge obvious target with not much else to draw removal away, but if it gets so much as bounced those creatures it copied are gone forever. I don't feel like forking out a bunch of money for giant shrouded creatures, so I either get Lightning Greaves and win or don't and don't.
Despite my whining, though, I can't bring myself to rate it anything but a 5. Long live The Mimeoplasm!
Bowshewicz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@MisterAction: Just copy something with Hexproof or Shroud.
@Arachibutyrophobia: Good question. I'm pretty sure it would work that way, and you'd get a 39/39 Cloudscraper. I'm hinging on the use of the word "additional" here, and I'm not entirely sure that I'm right.
TherealphatMatt
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Some day, I want to exile a Kilnmouth Dragon and ... well, anything huge.
Anathame
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Too expensive. Only a moron thinks this would ever be good.
Rikiaz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My legacy dredge deck is based on him... Usually I'll make him a Grimgrin with Lord of Extinction for +1/+1s and if that isn't enough I'll make my other one a Thraximundar.
I had to get more of these things. Hook this up with a Phyrexian Obliterator and some high powered cards and you've got a lot of fun on your hands. Buried Alive and Lightning Greaves just add more icing to the cake. I love using this in standard magic.
tavaritz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My question is: How come this is a mythic rare when Desecrator Hag is a common and they are sold in the same package with one each?
WotC is misleading big way.
mimeoplasmlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
a good card to put in a deck with this big guy is fact or fiction aka truth or tale.
good synergy with it's fellow commander, ghave, guru of spores. i mean, ghave is basically pentavus 2.0, right? and they share two of their colors-white and blue are the only outliers. give it something big, like lord of extinction, and let the fun begin.
Combolulz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Phage and Akroma for flavor
4wolf359
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy has the potential to be just insane, but not everyone seems to be reading him like I am. Milling is, after all, a subtheme in this deck. Why else would it already include Szadek, Lord of Secrets as a perfect copying target? This guy uses graveyards like a treasure chest--you want them to therefore be as fat as possible to give him more options. I brought in Nemesis of Reason and Keening Stone, which are horrifying to see together by themselves, along with Mind Funeral. That 100 card deck of yours? More than half of it is gone within two turns. Now watch me use it against you. Throw in fun cards for him to copy that get more powerful with larger graveyards, like the llhurgoyfs already in the precon. My two favorites are Cairn Wanderer and Necrotic Ooze. Oozes love nothing more than gaining new abilities, and those two guys give you all activated abilities or all keyword abilities present in all graveyards, respectively. Or copy Experiment Kraj, another ooze, and throw a counter onto anything on the battlefield to gain its activated ability. Then gank the target completely with Cytoplast Manipulator. Bonehoard basically turns any creature into a llhurgoyf, and Invigorating Falls is a dream heal in a deck like this.
Hand_Bannana
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
judging by the artwork id say hes a mix of the jellymoose and allosaurus rider. also i love how he has "the" in his name. hes not A mimeoplasm, hes THE mimeoplasm. nicely done
muggtonp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The fun part is you can steal stuff from the graveyards of your opponents.
What happens if you exile Skullbriar. Does he keep all of his counters?
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Endomarru
By he do you mean Mimeoplasm or Skullbriar? I think Skullbriar will keep its counters if you exile it, but from what I've read Mimeoplasm stops being a copy of Skullbriar when it leaves the battlefield so the counters drop off.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Endomarru: It depends. If you make The Mimeoplam become a copy of Skullbriar, it'll be a 1/1, because any counters on Briar won't be transfered to Plasm. On another hand, if you exile Briar for the +1/+1 counters, The Mimeoplasm will get a number of counters equal to Briar's plus one (from its base power), since it counts the cards a they last existed on a graveyard.
Manlands aren't creatures when in the graveyard. Whether activated that turn or not.
@ LordRandomness
"Hang on. If it ends up as a copy of something, does that mean it can't deal commander damage since it's not your commander, it's whatever you copied?
Plus, isn't him being legendary completely pointless other than allowing him to be a commander, since he comes in as a copy of something else anyway? "
Commanders work in odd ways. They are per-determined before a game begins as that decks commander. this quality, for lack of a better word, is called "commanderness." Commanderness cannot be given, exchanged, or taken away from a commander during the course of a game. Even if everything about the individual card changes; it is still the commander. If someone casts Ixidron, turning your commander into a face down, nameless, 2/2 creature, it is still your commander.
OpenSeasonNoobs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Obvious choice for the first target is something with Hexproof or Shroud, Thrun is probably the best one to take with it, then grab Twisted Abomination for 6 +1/+1 counters. Easy to get Twisted Abom in the grave too.
@ Bandswithother: Actually I was talking about Dryad Arbor. Being the only card you could do that with.
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's fascinating how well they tied down the Mimeoplasm's color identity. It's because it copies creatures. It's because it steals stuff from graveyards. And it's because it devours and grows (with +1/+1 counters). Flavorful and a blast to play - I've never seen the Mimeoplasm resolve in the same way twice.
WarioMan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Is it MIME-O-plasm or is it MIM-E-O-plasm?
ultratog1028
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@atali: Death's shadow is a better +1/+1 target, due to insta-dying the first few turns (like dreadnaught), higher power/toughnes and overall cheaper cost dollar wise. ($0.10-$0.75 USD vs $15 USD)
Pinto331
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Such a simple yet fun concept, make any creature massive. It's incredibly satisfying to both my inner Timmy and Johnny.
I think Cephalid Constable is by far my favorite use of this guy. In one hit I bounced all of my friend's lands back to his hand. There just isn't any way to come back from something like that, this card can be so, so cruel.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Dr. Pingas: on the other hand, it means you can have SEVERAL Mimeoplasms in your deck and on the battlefield...
gman92
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've always pronounced this "Mime-o-plasm" but I've seen others say "Mim-ee-o-plasm". It seems like he'd be my pronunciation because Mimes copy things and he copies things.
This was the hand of my friend the other day, when he went second in a heads-up. I had played Badlands into Sol Ring into Sensei's Divining Top, expecting to come out swinging next turn with a Taiga and some assortment of terrible things. My friend drew, smiled, and showed me this hand.
He played his Swamp and Mana Crypt and Lotus Petal, sacced the Petal for {U}, tapped Crypt for Sol Ring, Tapped the Swamp for Ritual, cast Entomb binning Putrefax, Exiled Spirit Guide for {G}, then used the second {B} to cast Death's Shadow and letting it die, then used the {G}{U} and remaining {B} and tapped Sol Ring for {2} to cast Mimeoplasm copying Putrefax and exiling Shadow. Killed me in one swing with poison.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
iMorphious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yes, Phyrexian Dreadnought, add in a primordial hydra, and there ya go
kazenpaus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Notice that 'The' is part of it's name, like with The Cheat. therefore you play a The Mimeoplasm, when you have Mirror Gallery in play, you can play all four of your The Mimeoplasms, and you adress him as mister The Mimeoplasm.
A.Minor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is how you truly break Fathom Mage. Dont worry, the link will work in a month or so. Use google for now :D
Or any lifelink or infect critter, or anything you wish could have +12/+12.
TheWallinator74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If I had to make an ideal variant of this beastly ooze monstrosity, I'd want Death's Shadow for the power and toughness, and Cairn Wanderer for the abilities.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hang on. If it ends up as a copy of something, does that mean it can't deal commander damage since it's not your commander, it's whatever you copied?
Plus, isn't him being legendary completely pointless other than allowing him to be a commander, since he comes in as a copy of something else anyway?
EDIT: "Commanders work in odd ways. They are per-determined before a game begins as that decks commander. this quality, for lack of a better word, is called "commanderness." Commanderness cannot be given, exchanged, or taken away from a commander during the course of a game. Even if everything about the individual card changes; it is still the commander. If someone casts Ixidron, turning your commander into a face down, nameless, 2/2 creature, it is still your commander." -Bandswithother
Cheers!
Bbone37
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As my first, and most worked-on (read: pimped out), EDH deck, I really enjoy Mims (as I call him). I generaly just use good stuff, and focus more on living death/living end as a win con than Mims himself. I am not hating on anyone's deck, but I feel as though the Blighted Agent + Fat dude route is too basic and a bit cheap. Again, well with in your right to play him this way, I just prefer the more randomness of the deck with out a "go to" plan such as that. Def a great card in and of itself, lots of fun indeed. 5/5
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Also, great design overall.
Another cool one was turning it into an Avatar of Slaughter.
Honestly wasn't too excited about this card and used Damia, Sage of Stone as my general the first game, who by the way is also a very solid general but I used her more defensively. But with Mimeoplasm, you really get to make one hell of an offensive juggernaut!
My only problem is that the Devour for Power precon promotes graveyard shenanigans while its commander desires to exile from graveyards.
Given, you're most likely going to target your opponents' yards, it's still a bit strang imho.
I love most of all that this is the very rare three-color card that feels like all three of its colors. Especially rare in wedge colors.
hmm how did u wipe the board with dread cacodemon? it needs to be cast from your hand for its effect to take place.
I love this guy.
*Buried Alive also grabbed Wonder, by the way.
Still fun to pull a turn-5 13/13 Iona because they milled it into the grave and you cycled your Eel. That's gotta be interesting to see.
Also, a note on the pre-con; word of the day was totally FLESHBAG!!!
EDIT: does Torpor Orb stop his effect? Based on how it's worded, I'm not sure if it's actually a triggered ability, or if the orb would only stop CIP/ETB abilities of the first card it exiles.
That said, good counter-donors for The Plaz:
Death's Shadow (13)
Phyrexian Dreadnought (12)
Force of Savagery (8)
Phyrexian Soulgorger (8)
Desecration Elemental (8)
Nyxathid (7)
Citanul Centaurs (6)
Groundbreaker (6)
Hungry Mist (6)
Ravaging Riftwurm (6)
Krosan Tusker (6)
Scion of Darkness (6) (and might also be a good thing to copy, if you have something else in your grave for counters)
Slipstream Eel (6)
All of these have some way to get themselves into your graveyard by the time you could cast The Plaz. Obviously the first two of these are the best, since they're both biggest and cheapest, but in a 100 card deck, you want to have several other options, in case you don't get either of those.
"Thank you mister horrible gelatinous blob!"
Little is known about the bizarre entity that crawls the world of Muraganda. The fang druids call it the Mimeoplasm, as it absorbs the traits of anything it engulfs. The saurid warriors of the south seek out the Mimeoplasm wherever it roams, believing it to be the key to a mysterious afterlife, hoping to see in it traces of their fallen loved ones. The elves of the tropics believe it to be part of nature's cycle, a way to channel death back into life. The scarwitches hiss when it approaches, seeing it as the ultimate enemy of the world. Whether it's a natural process or a malevolent force, the Mimeoplasm never fails to command respect.
Regardless, thats half their life
Not a lot of creatures have Haste and "evasion" like Timbermare does
Flavour text: "No matter what it imitates, it always has a T-Rex arm."
And remind me to throw my Triskelion in his deck.
I never could tell if the mimeoplasm was keeping my karador deck around just to abuse my graveyard.
gifts ungiven btw is great with this
also, can someone tell me how this would work? what if you exile a random fatty like krosan cloudscraper, and another mimeoplasm, so it comes into play with the second mimeoplasm's ability? yes, I know edh is singleton, but I'm just talking rules here. does that mean you can use his ability again, to exile two addition cloudscrapers? coming into play as a 39/39? and what if you exiled a third mimeoplasm, and so on? this guy could get crazy.
For extended game, you want to use this guy as a form of combo disruption, as EDH often operates out of the grave. Eat your opponents Titans, Praetors, and troublesome reoccuring creatures like Terastodon and Acidic Slime. These are also the preferred things to eat with Mimeoplasm if you intend to load him with Skithy because you only need to deal 10 damage, meaning all Titans would work as will most Praetors.
Fast kills are nice, so get those in to eliminate the anyone playing aggro or other Mimeoplasm users (other Mimeoplasms tend to disrupt your own play, so they're your first priority),Nether Traitor is great here because few people know what to expect until you start swinging away with a Hasty, Unblockable, beefy General. Nether Traitor is also great alongside Blood Ghast when you have Skullclamp on the board for reoccuring draw power for yourself.
Don't worry too much about loading your deck with tons of fatties just so your Mimeoplasm has something beefy to eat, just eat your opponent's creatures (they're bound to have strong enough creatures in the grave) and if they don't have anything, just let him sit to the side because that means you have more time to draw up alternate win conditions (Palinchron is useful here as he allows for a lot of infinite combos if he's played right).
Edit: Originally I opted to remove Triskelion because its just not that good of a combo for this guy (there are much more effective combos you can use that will also feed off your opponent's graveyards, as you have seen me explain already), but then I looked at it again and noticed if you gave him Infect with say.. Grafted Exoskeleton, then you can pretty much be a champ. Just unload your counters and snipe everyone for 10 damage and systematically remove them from the game. If you with to fully take advantage of the Infect damage you can also load in a Hydra Omnivore, as well as Psychosis Crawler and some X draw spells like Blue Sun's Zenith or Stroke of Genius.
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Also, this card makes Sturdy Hatchling sort of playable, and it's a thematically perfect card to reanimate. :)
Copy Targets: skithryx the blight dragon, dimir doppelganger, spinebiter, blighted agent, sutured ghoul, vorinclex voice o hunga. Everyone loves poison!
Useful AND Fun: Recall, corpse connoisseur, mimic vat, contagion engine, forbid.
Express your creativity. Then annihilate the ignorant.
Adding Jace, Memory Adept helps give The Mimeoplasm lots of copy targets, whether you mill yourself or your opponent(s).
In actually using it, though, I've gotten a bit frustrated. I've never complained about cards "dying to removal" before, but it's a huge problem here. As excited as I am to copy all kinds of weird stuff, I rarely ever get a chance to attack before it gets taken out; not only is it a huge obvious target with not much else to draw removal away, but if it gets so much as bounced those creatures it copied are gone forever. I don't feel like forking out a bunch of money for giant shrouded creatures, so I either get Lightning Greaves and win or don't and don't.
Despite my whining, though, I can't bring myself to rate it anything but a 5. Long live The Mimeoplasm!
@Arachibutyrophobia: Good question. I'm pretty sure it would work that way, and you'd get a 39/39 Cloudscraper. I'm hinging on the use of the word "additional" here, and I'm not entirely sure that I'm right.
Usually I'll make him a Grimgrin with Lord of Extinction for +1/+1s and if that isn't enough I'll make my other one a Thraximundar.
Lands;15
City of Brass x4
Cephilid Colliseum x3
Gemstone Mine x4
Darkslick Shores x4
Creatures;26
Narcomeoba x4
Ichorid x4
Putrid Imp x4
Stinkweed Imp x4
Golgari Grave-Troll x4
The Mimeoplasm x2
Lord of Extinction x2
Grimgrin, Corpse Born x1
Thraximundar x1
Spells;19
Bridge From Below x4
Breakthrough x4
Careful Study x3
Dread Return x4
Cabal Therapy x4
Sideboard;15
Woodfall Primus
Angel of Despair x1
Iona, Shield of Emeria x1
Akroma, Angel of Wrath x1
Ancient Grudge x4
Ray of Revelation x1
Trickbind x2
Chain of Vapor x4
WotC is misleading big way.
I think I'll take that Akroma, Angel of Wrath off your hands...
By he do you mean Mimeoplasm or Skullbriar? I think Skullbriar will keep its counters if you exile it, but from what I've read Mimeoplasm stops being a copy of Skullbriar when it leaves the battlefield so the counters drop off.
Someone please correct if I'm wrong.
Manlands aren't creatures when in the graveyard. Whether activated that turn or not.
@ LordRandomness
"Hang on. If it ends up as a copy of something, does that mean it can't deal commander damage since it's not your commander, it's whatever you copied?
Plus, isn't him being legendary completely pointless other than allowing him to be a commander, since he comes in as a copy of something else anyway? "
Commanders work in odd ways. They are per-determined before a game begins as that decks commander. this quality, for lack of a better word, is called "commanderness." Commanderness cannot be given, exchanged, or taken away from a commander during the course of a game. Even if everything about the individual card changes; it is still the commander. If someone casts Ixidron, turning your commander into a face down, nameless, 2/2 creature, it is still your commander.
Hex Parasite.
I think Cephalid Constable is by far my favorite use of this guy. In one hit I bounced all of my friend's lands back to his hand. There just isn't any way to come back from something like that, this card can be so, so cruel.
It seems like he'd be my pronunciation because Mimes copy things and he copies things.
Lotus Petal
Entomb
Death's Shadow
Elvish Spirit Guide
Swamp
Sol Ring
Mana Crypt
This was the hand of my friend the other day, when he went second in a heads-up. I had played Badlands into Sol Ring into Sensei's Divining Top, expecting to come out swinging next turn with a Taiga and some assortment of terrible things. My friend drew, smiled, and showed me this hand.
He played his Swamp and Mana Crypt and Lotus Petal, sacced the Petal for {U}, tapped Crypt for Sol Ring, Tapped the Swamp for Ritual, cast Entomb binning Putrefax, Exiled Spirit Guide for {G}, then used the second {B} to cast Death's Shadow and letting it die, then used the {G}{U} and remaining {B} and tapped Sol Ring for {2} to cast Mimeoplasm copying Putrefax and exiling Shadow. Killed me in one swing with poison.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Some good things to combine that massive boost with are:
Cold-Eyed Selkie
Cephalid Constable
Living Hive
Needle Specter
Szadek, Lord of Secrets
Lunar Avenger
Mindless Automaton
Phantom Nantuko
Sekki, Seasons' Guide
Spike Feeder
Spincrusher
Suncrusher
Triskelion
Abyssal Hunter
Durkwood Tracker
Mortis Dogs
Flayed Nim
Greatbow Doyen
Hydra Omnivore
Stuffy Doll
Or any lifelink or infect critter, or anything you wish could have +12/+12.
Plus, isn't him being legendary completely pointless other than allowing him to be a commander, since he comes in as a copy of something else anyway?
EDIT: "Commanders work in odd ways. They are per-determined before a game begins as that decks commander. this quality, for lack of a better word, is called "commanderness." Commanderness cannot be given, exchanged, or taken away from a commander during the course of a game. Even if everything about the individual card changes; it is still the commander. If someone casts Ixidron, turning your commander into a face down, nameless, 2/2 creature, it is still your commander." -Bandswithother
Cheers!
Garunteed to make your oppenent scoop.