Polymorph
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Ninth Edition #90★ (rare)
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.
Polymorph has 6 printings, first in Mirage (1996). EDHREC ranks it #7,993 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jace, Multiverse Architect decks (2,615 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Polymorph most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jace, Multiverse Architect: 2,615 decks
- Urza, Lord High Artificer: 2,000 decks
- Kykar, Wind's Fury: 1,569 decks
- Jalira, Master Polymorphist: 667 decks
- Talrand, Sky Summoner: 354 decks
- Baral and Kari Zev: 294 decks
- River Song: 283 decks
- Illuna, Apex of Wishes: 210 decks
Often played with Polymorph
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If there are no creatures in the player’s library, then the target creature is still destroyed, you see all the cards in that player’s library, and then they shuffle and continue play.
- : A “creature card” is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.
- : If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Polymorph would resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. Nothing else happens.
- : If there are no creature cards in the player’s library, all the cards in that library are revealed, then the library is shuffled. (The targeted creature remains destroyed.)
- : If the targeted creature has indestructible, it’s still a legal target — it just isn’t destroyed. The rest of Polymorph’s effect happens as normal.