Whim of Volrath
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Tempest #102 (rare)
- Price
- $10.06 USD
Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")
Whim of Volrath has 1 printing, first in Tempest (1997). EDHREC ranks it #11,365 among Commander cards. It appears most in Orvar, the All-Form decks (7,052 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Whim of Volrath most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Orvar, the All-Form: 7,052 decks
- Blind Seer: 417 decks
- Dromar, the Banisher: 230 decks
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress: 98 decks
- Tam, Mindful First-Year: 50 decks
- Mondo Gecko: 18 decks
- Clara Oswald: 3 decks
- Sam Kirk, Xenoanthropologist: 1 decks
Often played with Whim of Volrath
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : It can’t change a word to the same word. It must be a different word.
- : It only changes what is printed on the card (or set on a token when it was created or set by a copy effect). It will not change any effects that are on the permanent.
- : Can target a card with no appropriate words on it, or even one with no words at all.
- : You can’t change proper nouns (i.e. card names) such as “Island Fish Jasconius”.
- : You choose the words to change on resolution.
- : Alters all occurrences of the chosen word in the text box and the type line of the given card.
- : It can be used to change a land’s type from one basic land type to another. For example, Forest can be changed to Island so it produces blue mana. It doesn’t change the name of any permanent.