Unstable Shapeshifter (Tempest) - Gatherer

Unstable Shapeshifter

Community Rating:

Community Rating: 2.839 / 5 (31 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Unstable Shapeshifter

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Creature — Shapeshifter

Card Text:

Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, Unstable Shapeshifter becomes a copy of that creature, except it has this ability.

Flavor Text:

"In a world of untruths, the living lie rules."

—Oracle en-Vec

P/T:

0 / 1

Expansion:

Tempest

Rarity:

Rare

Artist:

Terese Nielsen

Rulings

10/4/2004	The copy effect is not targeted.
10/4/2004	If a creature enters the battlefield that has some characteristic or ability set when it enters the battlefield, the copy does not get to make that choice (because it is not entering the battlefield). All values are zero and all checks for choices consider the choice not to have been made.
10/4/2004	If the creature has power/toughness that is continuously recalculated, so does this copy of it.
10/4/2004	When it changes "shape" to a new creature, any "enters the battlefield" abilities of the creature do not trigger.
8/1/2008	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.
8/1/2008	If an Unstable Shapeshifter is on the battlefield when another Unstable Shapeshifter enters the battlefield, the first one gets the second one's triggered ability, so will copy the next creature that enters the battlefield twice. It will only do so the next time a creature enters the battlefield, because the second "becomes a copy" effect to resolve will erase the extra triggered ability.