Volrath's Shapeshifter
Stronghold (STH) #48 · Rare · Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
Mana cost: {1}{U}{U}
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 "{2}: Discard a card." (This creature has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
{2}: Discard a card.
Power/toughness 0/1 · Illustrated by Ron Spencer · Released March 2, 1998 · On the Reserved List
Prices
- Nonfoil: $14.36 USD · €13.85 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.61 USD (4.4%) to $14.36 USD; low $13.48 USD, high $14.36 USD.
Printings
- Vintage Masters #101 (VMA) · Rare · 2014
- Stronghold #48 (this printing) · Rare · 1998 · $14.36 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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 · wotc — 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 · wotc — A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.
- 2008-08-01 · wotc — The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.