Volrath's Shapeshifter

In Cali Commander

Legal in Cali Commander. See the ban list, or check a whole deck.

Type line

Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter

Oracle text

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.

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.2004-10-04
• 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.2004-10-04
• 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.2004-10-04
• A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.2004-10-04
• When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.2004-10-04
• The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.2008-08-01

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