Unstable Shapeshifter
Tempest · #100 · Rare

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Creature — Shapeshifter
Whenever another creature enters, this creature becomes a copy of that creature, except it has this ability.
"In a world of untruths, the living lie rules."
—Oracle *en*-Vec
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Card details
- Shown printing
- Tempest (TMP)
- Artist
- Terese Nielsen
- Color identity
- Blue
- Colors
- Blue
- Mana value
- 4
- First released
- October 14, 1997
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #25964 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $1.07 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHLegal
- PremodernLegal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (6)
If a creature enters that has some characteristic or ability set when it enters, the copy does not get to make that choice (because it is not entering. All values are zero and all checks for choices consider the choice not to have been made.
If the creature has power/toughness that is continuously recalculated, so does this copy of it.
The copy effect is not targeted.
When it changes "shape" to a new creature, any "enters" abilities of the creature do not trigger.
If an Unstable Shapeshifter is on the battlefield when another Unstable Shapeshifter enters, the first one gets the second one's triggered ability, so it will copy the next creature that enters twice. It will only do so the next time a creature enters, because the second "becomes a copy" effect to resolve will erase the extra triggered ability.
The ability is granted as part of the copy effect, which means it will be removed by any effects that would remove abilities regardless of when the effect was created.
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