Card

Volrath's Shapeshifter

Creature — Shapeshifter


As long as the top card of your graveyard is a creature card, Volrath's Shapeshifter has the full text of that card and has the text ": Discard a card." (Volrath's Shapeshifter has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
: Discard a card.


  Vintage Masters (VMA)
#101, Rare

Illustrated by: Ron Spencer
Multiverse ID: 383148

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Historic Brawl
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

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