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Volrath's Shapeshifter - Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter

Stronghold · 1998

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$13median

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Legality

PremodernLEGAL
Reserved ListRESERVED
Full Scryfall Data
Stronghold{1}{U}{U}

Volrath's Shapeshifter

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.

Printings & Editions

Premodern-legal editions of Volrath's Shapeshifter — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.

Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.

Critical Rulings

"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."

— 2004-10-04

"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."

— 2004-10-04

"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."

— 2004-10-04

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

— 2004-10-04

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

— 2004-10-04

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

— 2008-08-01

Price History

91d · USD
$13▼ 24.1%

Tracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.

$17$15$13
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