Undercover Operative
Streets of New Capenna Promos (PSNC) #63p · Rare · Creature — Shapeshifter Rogue
Mana cost: {2}{U}{U}
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it enters with a shield counter on it if you control that creature. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.)
Power/toughness 0/0 · Illustrated by Tyler Walpole · Released April 29, 2022
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.37 USD · €0.27 EUR
- Foil: $0.77 USD · €0.45 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: unchanged at $0.37 USD.
Printings
- Magic Online Promos #99713 (PRM) · Rare · 2022
- Streets of New Capenna Promos #63p (this printing) · Rare · 2022 · $0.37 USD
- Streets of New Capenna Promos #63s (PSNC) · Rare · 2022 · $0.79 USD foil
- Streets of New Capenna #414 (SNC) · Rare · 2022 · $0.47 USD
- Streets of New Capenna #63 (SNC) · Rare · 2022 · $0.40 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — Shield counters don't prevent players from sacrificing creatures.
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — Removing a shield counter in this way isn't the same as regenerating a creature.
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — A creature with a shield counter on it may still be destroyed by state-based actions if it has damage marked on it equal to its toughness or has been dealt unpreventable damage by a source with deathtouch.
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — “Shield” is not an ability that creatures have and shield counters are not keyword counters. If a creature with a shield counter loses its abilities, the shield counter will still protect it as normal.
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — If a permanent that would be dealt damage has more than one shield counter on it, that damage is prevented and only one shield counter is removed.
- 2022-04-29 · wotc — If a permanent with a shield counter is dealt unpreventable damage, that damage will be dealt and a shield counter will still be removed.
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