MTG Salvation

This seems really good, Mutate is cheaper and flash

This is really scary with Vadruk, Apex of Thunder. You can flash in the Octopus to retrieve a counterspell from your graveyard and free-cast it without exiling it, effectively letting you fire off Absorb, Sinister Sabotage and Ionize for 1U while buffing Vadruk to draw when damaging the opponent. Alternately, you can do this with a Scorching Dragonfire to kill a threat, Lazotep Plating to deny removal (or even a Thought Erasure), or bring back a Teferi, Time Raveler, Narset, Parter of Veils, Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, or The Royal Scions.

I see a bit of Ninja of the Deep Hours in this one's mutate ability, but mutate is more like an aura which is less good. This thing is definitely better on its own though, 2/2 Ophidian with flash is a solid card.

This might be the best mutater period. 1U at instant speed? That’s awesome for some of these effects, not to mention getting two or three.