Polymorph
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SetMIR
Collector #82
Released1996-10-08
Rarityrare
ArtistRobert Bliss
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Polymorph

RareColour IDMV 4
Sorcery
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.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
5 other English printingsEarliest 1999-04-21Newest 2021-07-23Cheapest priced $1.11 in 9ED
Rulings (5)
wotc1 Jul 2013
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.
wotc1 Oct 2009
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.
wotc1 Oct 2009
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.)
wotc1 Oct 2009
If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Polymorph would resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. Nothing else happens.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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.