diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js b/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
index ad35733af..5988de7e9 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ class Editor extends React.Component {
       this.tmp.resolves++
       const react = ReactPlugin({
         ...this.props,
-        __editor__: this,
         value: this.props.value || this.state.value,
       })
 
diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/debug/debug-mutations.js b/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/debug/debug-mutations.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 715e1d44c..000000000
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/debug/debug-mutations.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-import Debug from 'debug'
-
-const debug = Debug('slate:mutations')
-
-/**
- * Options for MutationObserver
- *
- * @type {Object}
- */
-
-const observeOptions = {
-  childList: true,
-  characterData: true,
-  attributes: true,
-  subtree: true,
-  characterDataOldValue: true,
-}
-
-/**
- * Properties on a MutationRecord
- *
- * @type {Object}
- */
-
-const keys = [
-  'type',
-  'oldValue',
-  'target',
-  'addedNodes',
-  'removedNodes',
-  'attributeName',
-  'attributeNamespace',
-  'nextSibling',
-  'previousSibling',
-]
-
-/**
- * Takes a mutation record and turns it into an Object that is easy to log to
- * the console. Notably, it removes `null` and `undefined` values as well as
- * values that are a `NodeList` that has no entries.
- *
- * @param {MutationRecord} mutationRecord
- */
-
-function normalize(mutationRecord) {
-  const object = {}
-
-  keys.forEach(key => {
-    const value = mutationRecord[key]
-    if (value == null) return
-    if (value instanceof window.NodeList && value.length === 0) return
-    object[key] = value
-  })
-  return object
-}
-
-/**
- * A plugin that sends short easy to digest debug info about each dom mutation
- * to browser.
- *
- * More information about mutations here:
- *
- * <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver>
- * <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationRecord>
- *
- * @param {Object} options
- */
-
-function DebugMutationsPlugin({ __editor__ }) {
-  const observer = new window.MutationObserver(flush)
-
-  function flush(mutations) {
-    const array = Array.from(mutations).map(normalize)
-    debug(`${array.length} MutationRecord`)
-    // Used `console` because `debug` was not easy to view succinctly
-    window.console.log(...array)
-  }
-
-  // `findDOMNode` does not exist until later so we use `setTimeout`
-  setTimeout(() => {
-    const rootEl = __editor__.findDOMNode([])
-    observer.observe(rootEl, observeOptions)
-  })
-}
-
-export default DebugMutationsPlugin
diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js b/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js
index b1a91c3b7..633151c4c 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import DOMPlugin from '../dom'
 import RestoreDOMPlugin from './restore-dom'
 import DebugEventsPlugin from '../debug/debug-events'
 import DebugBatchEventsPlugin from '../debug/debug-batch-events'
-import DebugMutationsPlugin from '../debug/debug-mutations'
 import NoopPlugin from '../debug/noop'
 
 /**
@@ -27,9 +26,6 @@ function ReactPlugin(options = {}) {
   const debugBatchEventsPlugin = Debug.enabled('slate:batch-events')
     ? DebugBatchEventsPlugin(options)
     : null
-  const debugMutationsPlugin = Debug.enabled('slate:mutations')
-    ? DebugMutationsPlugin(options)
-    : null
   const noopPlugin = Debug.enabled('slate:noop') ? NoopPlugin(options) : null
   const renderingPlugin = RenderingPlugin(options)
   const commandsPlugin = CommandsPlugin(options)
@@ -51,7 +47,6 @@ function ReactPlugin(options = {}) {
   return [
     debugEventsPlugin,
     debugBatchEventsPlugin,
-    debugMutationsPlugin,
     noopPlugin,
     domPlugin,
     restoreDomPlugin,