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Volrath's Shapeshifter

sthStronghold#48rare
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1 printings across 1 sets
Printings

This is the only printing — Stronghold #48.

Card details
Artist
Ron Spencer
Frame
1997
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter

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.

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Abilities
StaticAs 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.)
Activated{2}: Discard a card.
Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Ron Spencer
Rulings
  • WotCAug 1, 2008

    The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    If 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.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    If 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.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    If 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.

  • WotCOct 4, 2004

    When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.