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Polymorphist's Jest

{1}{U}{U}

Instant

M15Magic 2015#75rare
Foil

"The flies were bothering me." —Jalira, master polymorphist

Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Frame
2015
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 1793
Illustrator
Craig J Spearing
Found in
2015 Core Set MTGO Redemption Foil · 2015 Core Set MTGO Redemption · 2 more
Printings2
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Until end of turn, each creature target player controls loses all abilities and becomes a blue Frog with base power and toughness 1/1.
Market · per finishspark updated 3h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+2.5%
$6.98
$3.51 low$0.11 gap
Foil+0.0%
$12.39
$8.81 low$3.21 gap
Cheapest playable copy$5.87· across 2 printings

Rulings

7 · latest Jul 18, 2014 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    Creatures that enter the battlefield or come under the target player’s control after Polymorphist’s Jest resolves won’t be affected.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    Effects that modify a creature’s power and/or toughness, such as the effect of Titanic Growth, will apply to the creatures no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for any counters that change their power and/or toughness and effects that switch power and toughness.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    If one of the Theros block Gods is affected by Polymorphist’s Jest, it will be a legendary 1/1 blue Frog enchantment creature with no abilities. If it stops being a creature, perhaps because your devotion to its color(s) decreased, it will be a legendary blue enchantment with no abilities. The way continuous effects work, the God’s type-changing ability is applied before the effect that removes that ability is applied.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    If one of the affected creatures gains an ability after Polymorphist’s Jest resolves, it will keep that ability.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    Polymorphist’s Jest doesn’t counter abilities that have already triggered or been activated. In particular, there is no way to cast this spell to stop a creature’s ability that says “At the beginning of your upkeep,” “When this creature enters the battlefield,” or similar from triggering.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    Polymorphist’s Jest overwrites all previous effects that set the creatures’ base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply after Polymorphist’s Jest resolves will overwrite this effect.

  • WotCJul 18, 2014

    The creatures will lose all other colors and creature types, but they will retain any other card types (such as artifact) or supertypes (such as legendary) they may have.