Card
Protean Hulk
Mana cost {5}{G}{G}
Creature — Beast 6/6
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.
Part of 17 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · DIS · #90
- Cheapest printing
- €3.26
- EDHREC salt
- 1.23
- Color identity
- Green
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B2 Core — counts toward 2 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 2 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B3 Upgraded — counts toward 4 tutors (Lotus Vault house cap): Counts toward the 4 tutors allowed (Lotus Vault house cap)
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Nonland tutor, two at most in brackets 1–2 and four in bracket 3 (Lotus Vault house cap)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
17 known combos.
- Protean Hulk + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Blood Artist + Gravecrawler + Body Snatcher
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Protean Hulk + Body Snatcher + Viscera Seer + Murderous Redcap + Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Produces: Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Varolz, the Scar-Striped + Protean Hulk + Disciple of the Vault + Wingrattle Scarecrow + Melira, Sylvok Outcast
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-03-16 · 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. - 2018-03-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If a card in your library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast