Volrath's Shapeshifter
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SetSTH
Collector #48
Released1998-03-02
Rarityrare
ArtistRon Spencer
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Volrath's Shapeshifter

RareReserved listColour IDMV 3
Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
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 ": Discard a card." (This creature has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
: Discard a card.
0 / 1
Card capabilities
CreatureDiscard
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2014-06-16Newest 2014-06-16
Rulings (6)
wotc1 Aug 2008
The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.
wotc4 Oct 2004
When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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.
wotc4 Oct 2004
A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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.