Mulldrifter

Creature — Elemental

Flying

When this enters, draw two cards.

Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for the evoke cost. If you do, this creature is sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Combos

• Dualcaster Mage + Ghostly Flicker + Mulldrifter

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

hyalopterouslemur on Bantmare

3 weeks ago

Mulldrifter is interesting. Think of it as Divination with kicker {2}, because 90% of the time, it will be a Divination. (This is true of all evoke creatures.) Still, it's nice to have evasion when you need it.

Shrieking Drake: "This baby can put so many combos in her."

And of course, Mystic Snake. I love this whole cycle (Absorb, Undermine, and Suffocating Blast are the others.) but Mystic Snake can be blinked making it a little bit better than the rest.

Who is your Commander? What are you trying to do?

DemonDragonJ on How Good is Atalan Jackal?

3 months ago

wallisface, I definitely have some excellent cards in that deck with abilities that trigger when they enter the battlefield, such as Reclamation Sage, Eternal Witness, Craterhoof Behemoth, Brutalizer Exarch, Coiling Oracle, Mulldrifter Mystic Snake, or Peregrine Drake; do you agree that those creatures are excellent cards for flickering?

Kazierts on Which is More Important: Total …

3 months ago

The answer is pretty simple, it always depends on context. Magic is a very complex game and situations matter a lot. A lot of examples you gave already mentions different contexts and cannot be judged the same way as other examples.

Of the cards with activated abilities you mentioned, only Spectral Sailor and Faerie Mastermind are any good because they are useful aside from their card draw ability. A lot of times you don't even need to activate them since that's just tge cherry on top. Unless you have a very specific combo with Mystic Archaeologist, it's a horrible card because the only thing you can with it is pay a lot of mana to draw only 2 cards. For 5 mana, Mulldrifter is miles better. However, maybe you're making a weird Wizard EDH with Zirda as a companion and Mystic Archaeologist happens to fit perfectly.

Even the example with Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers and Vernadi Shieldmate is relative. The Cavaliers is an Elf Knight while the Shieldmate is a Human soldier, which means, as more "efficient" as one is over the other, some decks might completely one of them.

Usually, cheaper cards are better, but synergies, strategies and redundancy also influence card choice. Is Searing Spear better than Shock? Maybe, but maybe some people prefer to have only {R} burn spells in their deck. Maybe there's a format where Lightning Bolt doesn't exist and both Shock and Searing Spear (or Lightning Strike since it's the more modern version) go in the same deck.

Very few things are so black and white in MTG.

RiotRunner789 on Opinions on what to include …

5 months ago

What about one time effects like Mulldrifter or Baleful Strix?

Also, would you count a tribal restriction? Such as when you cast X (Knight, Sliver, etc.), draw a card?

I know you have a maybe board but if you consider there are also artifact, enchantment, and land creatures, then your maybe board could get a bit large.

DemonDragonJ on Modern Horizons 3

11 months ago

I presume that Nulldrifter's card drawing ability is a cast trigger and not an enters-the-battlefield trigger to prevent players from abusing it, as they can with Mulldrifter?

GingerLife117 on Horde of Notions

1 year ago

It could probably use a little more card draw......I do have a Mulldrifter and the cluestones can draw if I sacrifice them....the one that would help the most is the Vanquisher's Banner....I also really want to run all of the Omnaths and an Animar, Soul of Elements and maybe a Maelstrom Wanderer but it doesn't necessarily need a wanderer.....Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer would also go good in it but also doesn't need need it....and any of the Titanias would go better in it than greensleeves

Theasus7 on Horde of Notions

1 year ago

Looking good! I think you might enjoy having a little more card draw in the deck. Just to make sure that you are drawing all the cool elements and ramp you need to play. Mulldrifter is a great start.

Vanquisher's Banner, Omnath, Locus of the Roil, Risen Reef, Distant Melody, Soul of the Harvest

GeminiSpartanX on Animar Horde 4

1 year ago

I know that you want creature versions of spells, but I don't think that means you should run sub-optimal choices like Armillary Sphere over Cultivate or other green ramp spells. Similarly, there are plenty of creatures that draw cards that you could use over Fevered Visions. Animar works pretty well with creatures that have X in their casting cost too. Hormagaunt Horde and Aberrant are pretty good newer cards that might fit the bill here. Mulldrifter fits with the panharmonicon and minor elemental strategies in the deck, not to mention the new creature version of panharmonicon- Roaming Throne (naming elementals). Most of your deck seems pretty on-theme for what you're trying to do. Hope some of those suggestions help!