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Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter · STH #48 · rare
Volrath's Shapeshifter
$12.06
versions · 2 printings
format pulse
- standard not legal
- pioneer not legal
- modern not legal
- legacy legal
- vintage legal
- commander legal
- pauper not legal
EDHREC #23160
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As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, this creature has the full text of that card and has the text "{2}: Discard a card." (This creature has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
{2}: Discard a card.
rulings
- 2004-10-04If the top card in your graveyard isn't a creature card (meaning a card with the type Creature, which may or may not have other types such as Artifact or Enchantment), then it's just a 0/1 blue creature. Older cards of type Summon are also Creature cards.
- 2004-10-04If the top card in your graveyard is a creature card, this card uses the listed characteristics, including color and any other types. But, this card keeps the granted ability in addition to those from the card being copied.
- 2004-10-04If the top card in the graveyard has any other undefined characteristics, then those characteristics are not acquired and the shapeshifter uses the characteristic from its own card.
- 2004-10-04A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.
- 2004-10-04When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.
- 2008-08-01The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.