Phantasmal Fiend
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SetDKM
Collector #8a
Released2001-12-01
Raritycommon
ArtistScott Kirschner
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Phantasmal Fiend

CommonColour IDMV 4
Creature — Illusion
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
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Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
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5 other English printingsEarliest 1996-06-10Newest 2008-09-22Cheapest priced $0.07 in ALL
Rulings (5)
wotc19 Mar 2021
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.
wotc19 Mar 2021
Effects that switch a creature's power and toughness apply after all other effects, regardless of when those effects began to apply. For instance, if you target a 1/2 creature then give it +2/+0 later in the turn, it's a 2/3 creature, not a 4/1 creature.
wotc19 Mar 2021
Switching a creature's power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.
wotc1 Oct 2008
Effects that switch power and toughness are always applied last when determining a creature's power and toughness, even if other power/toughness-changing effects are created later in the turn. For example, if you activate Phantasmal Fiend's first ability, it will become 2/4. Then if you activate its second ability, it will become 4/2. Then if you activate its first ability again, it will become 3/3.
wotc1 Nov 2005
Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.