Bloodline Pretender
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This printing
SetMOC
Collector #350
Released2023-04-21
Rarityuncommon
ArtistSlawomir Maniak
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Bloodline Pretender

UncommonMV 3
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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Keywords
Changeling
Card capabilities
ArtifactCreature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
3 other English printingsEarliest 2021-02-05Newest 2024-01-25Cheapest priced $1.56 in J22
Rulings (7)
wotc5 Feb 2021
If Bloodline Pretender enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, you can choose one of that creature's creature types and have Bloodline Pretender's last ability trigger for that other creature.
wotc5 Feb 2021
If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type. It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.
wotc5 Feb 2021
The subtype Shapeshifter that appears on the type line is mostly there to reinforce the flavor. A creature card with changeling is just as much an Elf, a Dwarf, a Sliver, a Goat, a Coward, and a Zombie as it is a Shapeshifter.
wotc5 Feb 2021
If Bloodline Pretender is somehow on the battlefield without a chosen creature type, its last ability can't trigger, even if a creature with no creature types enters the battlefield.
wotc5 Feb 2021
Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.
wotc5 Feb 2021
If an effect causes a creature with changeling to lose all abilities, it will remain all creature types, even though it will no longer have changeling. This is because changeling applies before the effect that removes it.