diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js b/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
index 5988de7e9..ad35733af 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/components/editor.js
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ 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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..715e1d44c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/debug/debug-mutations.js
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+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 633151c4c..b1a91c3b7 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/plugins/react/index.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ 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'
 
 /**
@@ -26,6 +27,9 @@ 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)
@@ -47,6 +51,7 @@ function ReactPlugin(options = {}) {
   return [
     debugEventsPlugin,
     debugBatchEventsPlugin,
+    debugMutationsPlugin,
     noopPlugin,
     domPlugin,
     restoreDomPlugin,