Protean Hulk 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 dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
How it works : Protean Hulk
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If a card in your library has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
You can find any number of creature cards, so long as their total mana value is 6 or less. For example, you could find eight creature cards with mana value 0 and three with mana value 2, but you couldn't find two with mana value 4.
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
Protean Hulk + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Blood Artist
Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creatureInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Body Snatcher, Carrion Feeder, and Gravecrawler.
- 3With Body Snatcher's ETB trigger on the stack, sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder, getting back Protean Hulk for its death trigger.
- 4Sacrifice Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering its ability.
- 5Get Pitiless Plunderer and Blood Artist.
- 6Sacrifice Gravecrawler to Carrion Feeder, giving it a +1/+1 counter, pinging an opponent with Blood Artist, and creating a treasure token.
- 7Cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard using the created treasure token.
- 8Repeat steps 6 and 7 to ping your opponent to death.
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#2
Protean Hulk + Body Snatcher + Viscera Seer + Murderous Redcap
Infinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Body Snatcher and Viscera Seer.
- 3With Body Snatcher's ETB trigger on the stack, sacrifice it to Viscera Seer, getting back Protean Hulk for its death trigger.
- 4Sacrifice Hulk to Viscera Seer, triggering its ability.
- 5Get Murderous Redcap and Melira.
- 6Murderous Redcap ETB ability triggers, dealing 2 damage to an opponent.
- 7Sacrifice Murderous Redcap to Viscera Seer, bringing it back with persist.
- 8Melira prevents a -1/-1 counter from being put on Murderous Redcap.
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#3
Varolz, the Scar-Striped + Protean Hulk + Disciple of the Vault + Wingrattle Scarecrow
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite lifelossInfinite creature LTB
- 1Sacrifice Protean Hulk to Varolz's regenerate ability.
- 2Protean Hulk's ability activates, placing Melira, Wingrattle Scarecrow, and Disciple of the Vault on the battlefield.
- 3Sacrifice Wingrattle Scarecrow to Varolz's regenerate ability, triggering Disciple of the Vault's ability and causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
- 4Wingrattle Scarecrow's persist ability activates, bringing it back to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter due to Melira's ability.
- 5Repeat.
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#4
Grumgully, the Generous + Protean Hulk + Lesser Masticore + Reckless Fireweaver
Infinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Cause Protean Hulk to die.
- 2Protean Hulk triggers, searching your library for Lesser Masticore, Reckles Fireweaver, and Arcbound Ravager, and then putting them onto the battlefield.
- 3Activate Arcbound Ravager by sacrificing Lesser Masticore.
- 4Lesser Masticore triggers, returning itself to the battlefield.
- 5Reckless Fireweaver triggers, dealing 1 damage to each opponent.
- 6Resolve the Arcbound Ravager ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 7Repeat from step 3.
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#5
Protean Hulk + Carrion Feeder + Phyrexian Delver + Body Snatcher
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite lifegainInfinite lifegain triggers
- 1Get Protean Hulk killed, triggering its ability.
- 2Get Phyrexian Delver and Carrion Feeder.
- 3Phyrexian Delver ETB triggers, bring back Protean Hulk to play.
- 4Sacrifice Protean Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering it's ability.
- 5Get Body Snatcher and Blood Artist.
- 6Body Snatcher ETB triggers, hold priority and sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder, triggering its death trigger.
- 7Bring back Protean Hulk to play, Body Snatcher ETB resolves.
- 8Sacrifice Protean Hulk to Carrion Feeder, triggering it's ability.
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#6
Protean Hulk + Loaming Shaman + Leyline of Singularity + Clone
Infinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Cast Clone by paying
, choosing to have it enter the battlefield as a copy of Protean Hulk. - 2Put Clone into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 3Clone dies, causing you to search your library for Loaming Shaman and Phantasmal Image and put them onto the battlefield.
- 4Choose to have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of Protean Hulk.
- 5Put Phantasmal Image into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 6Phantasmal Image and Loaming Shaman trigger.
- 7Resolve the Loaming Shaman trigger, shuffling Clone and Phantasmal Image from your graveyard into your library.
- 8Resolve the Protean Hulk trigger, causing you to search your library for Clone and Phantasmal Image and put them onto the battlefield.
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#7
Flash + Protean Hulk + Vigean Graftmage + Incubation Druid
Infinite colored manaInfinite mana lands you control can produce
- 1Cast Flash putting Protean Hulk into play and choose not to pay.
- 2Protean Hulk is sacrificed.
- 3Grab Vigean Graftmage, Incubation Druid, & Torch Courier.
- 4Vigean Graftmage's Graft ability triggers, move a counter to Incubation Druid.
- 5Sacrifice Torch Courier to give Incubation Druid haste.
- 6Tap Incubation Druid for and untap it with Vigean Graftmage, netting .
- 7Repeat for infinite .
- 8You can now untap Incubation Druid as much as you want to get infinite of your other colors.
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#8
Flash + Protean Hulk + Skill Borrower + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Infinite damageInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature LTB
- 1Cast Flash, putting Protean Hulk into play.
- 2Protean Hulk goes to the bin and gets Skill Borrower, Torch Courier and Goblin Recruiter.
- 3Goblin Recruiter puts Kiki-Jiki on top of your library.
- 4Sacrifice the Torch Courier to give Skill Borrower haste.
- 5Use Skill Borrower's ability to use Kiki's ability: making another copy of Skill Borrower.
- 6Repeat step 5 infinitely.
- 7This creates infinite skill borrowers that are tapped, plus 1 that is untapped.
- 8Use the last Skill Borrower to copy Goblin Recruiter to put Mogg Fanatic on top of your library, and then sacrifice all your Skill Borrowers to their own ability to deal Infinite damage to your opponent.
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Legal formats
modernlegacyvintagepennycommanderoathbreakerpredh
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