Matterbending Mage is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
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Official card text
When this creature enters, return up to one other target creature to its owner's hand. Whenever you cast a spell within its mana cost, this creature can't be blocked this turn.
How it works : Matterbending Mage
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Matterbending Mage's last ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Clement, the Worrywort + Intruder Alarm + Matterbending Mage
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite mana creatures you control can produceInfinite storm count
- 1Activate any number of creatures you control by tapping them, adding at least enough mana to cast Matterbending Mage.
- 2Cast Matterbending Mage by paying its mana cost.
- 3When Matterbending Mage enters the battlefield, it, Clement and Intruder Alarm trigger.
- 4Resolve the Clement trigger, returning nothing to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Matterbending Mage trigger, returning the other creature with greater mana value from the battlefield to your hand.
- 6Resolve the Intruder Alarm trigger, untapping all creatures.
- 7Activate any number of creatures you control by tapping them, adding at least enough mana to cast the creature returned to your hand.
- 8Cast the creature by paying its mana cost.
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#2
Nethroi, Apex of Death + Phyrexian Altar + Mitotic Slime + Matterbending Mage
Infinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature tokens
- 1Cast Nethroi either from your hand or from the command zone for its mutate cost by paying
, putting it under a non-Human creature you control. - 2Nethroi triggers, returning Matterbending Mage and Mitotic Slime from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 3When Matterbending Mage enters, it triggers, returning Nethroi from the battlefield to your hand.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing Matterbending Mage and Mitotic Slime, adding .
- 5When Mitotic Slime dies, it triggers, creating two 2/2 Ooze creature tokens.
- 6Activate Phyrexian Altar twice by sacrificing the Oozes, adding
. - 7When the Oozes die, they trigger, creating four 1/1 Ooze creature tokens.
- 8Activate Phyrexian Altar three times by sacrificing three Oozes, adding
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Legal formats
standardfuturehistorictimelessgladiatorpioneermodernlegacyvintagecommanderoathbreakerstandardbrawlbrawlcompetitivebrawlalchemydueltlr
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