Mystic is co-dominant. It's a different mutation of the same gene as lesser/butter, mojave, Vin Russo, mocha, special, and hidden (different versions of the same gene are called alleles). It's sure looking like Phantom is the exact same mutation of that blue eyed leucistic gene but the others are different mutations of that gene (it's also arguable if lesser and butter are the exact same version or different versions from each other). The look of a het mystic paired with the normal copy of the blue eyed leucistic gene isn't extreme enough to justify the cost. What you would buy a mystic for is the breeding potential to make the much more striking homozygous mystic or a mix such as the mystic potion (one copy mystic version of the blue eyed leucistic gene and one copy the mojave version of that same gene). Likely the mystic\\lesser combo will be the leucistic Karma look like phantom\\lesser. Have there been any other combos of either phantom or mystic with other mutations of this blue eyed lecustic gene?
One thing I find interesting is what mystic has done for mojave. A few years ago you would never hear someone wanting mojave over lesser. Of course it's all personal preference but I think most find the lesser by it's self (or rather with the normal version of the blue eyed leucistic gene) a more striking morph than mojave. Also the homozygous lesser is whiter than the homozygous mojave. But given the potential to create a mystic potion(mojave\\mystic) or crystal (mojave\\special) I'm now hoping my male is mojave and not lesser (although I'll want to add lesser to my collection eventually).
Long story short his two possible fathers are a lesser and a mojave but his mom is a dark chocolate like morph that I was thinking could have possibly darkened a lesser to look more like a mojave. Most likely he is a mojave (I think the pattern is right even looking past the questionable color) but I'm going to try breeding him to a ch mystic type girl and am sure hoping he isn't a lesser as I want mystic potions more than karma if I'm lucky enough for the girl to be what I hope.
Of course you can't make a platy (lesser\\hidden) without lesser so maybe once hidden becomes available lessers will put mojave in it's place again.
I just remembered, the phantom\\hidden has been done, that was RDR's phantom 44. Wonder how those turned out as adults?
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