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◇ Catalog #48

Volrath's Shapeshifter

sth·#48·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Ron Spencer

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Mar 1998

28 yr ago

Value

$14.74+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $14 · low $13

NM$13.7

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$13–$15modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $15low $0.62range 2372.6%n 45

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #22,915 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil$14

Gameplay

Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter

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.

0/1

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 6

2008-08-01wotc

The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.

2004-10-04wotc

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.

2004-10-04wotc

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.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $13.74. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.62 and $15.33 across 45 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from STH — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #48 of *Stronghold*, the set that shipped alongside the March 1998 Stronghold release.

Card type: Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{U}{U} (3 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #22,915 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Ron Spencer. Rarix catalogs 790 other cards credited to this artist.