Shapeshifter is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
As this creature enters, choose a number between 0 and 7. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may choose a number between 0 and 7. Shapeshifter's power is equal to the last chosen number and its toughness is equal to 7 minus that number.
How it works : Shapeshifter
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The ability that sets its power and toughness is a characteristic-defining ability. This means it applies before any other effects that modify power and/or toughness.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The ability that lets you choose a new number is a triggered ability that triggers only once each upkeep.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Interactions with other cards
These cards' text mentions Shapeshifter.
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Creatures you control are every creature type. The same is true for creature spells you control and creature cards you own that aren't on the battlefield. {3}, {T}: Create a 2/2 blue Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It is every creature type.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types. This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.
When this enchantment enters, create X 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.) Creature tokens you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.
{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell. {6}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It's every creature type.)
Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.
Flash Flying You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it's a Faerie Shapeshifter in addition to its other types and it has flying.
Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. Create a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. (It's every creature type.)
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) When this creature enters, create a 2/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Create an X/X colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling and deathtouch, where X is the number of land cards in your graveyard. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)
When this creature enters, create three 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature tokens with changeling. (They're every creature type.) Encore {6}{W}{W} ({6}{W}{W}, Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
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