Volrath's Shapeshifter
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 1
- Set
- Vintage Masters #101 (rare)
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.
Volrath's Shapeshifter has 2 printings, first in Stronghold (1998). EDHREC ranks it #23,471 among Commander cards. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Often played with Volrath's Shapeshifter
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.
- : When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.
- : The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.