Volrath's 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 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 ": Discard a card." (This creature has that card's name, mana cost, color, types, abilities, power, and toughness.)
How it works : Volrath's Shapeshifter
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The ability that sets its characteristics is a text-changing effect.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
When it changes forms, any "enters" abilities of the card it "copies" do not trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
A copy of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Volrath's Shapeshifter + Thousand-Year Elixir + Pawn of Ulamog
- 1Activate Whisper, Blood Liturgist, sacrificing itself and an additional creature to return Volrath's Shapeshifter from the graveyard to the battlefield.
- 2Pawn of Ulamog triggers, creating an Eldrazi spawn token.
- 3Volrath's Shapeshifter enters the battlefield as a copy of Whisper, Blood Liturgist.
- 4Activate Volrath's Shapeshifter, sacrificing itself and an Eldrazi spawn token to return Whisper, Blood Liturgist to the battlefield.
- 5Pawn of Ulamog triggers, creating an Eldrazi spawn token.
Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Volrath's Shapeshifter + Thousand-Year Elixir + Xathrid Necromancer
- 1Activate Whisper, Blood Liturgist, sacrificing itself and an additional creature to return Volrath's Shapeshifter from the graveyard to the battlefield.
- 2Xathrid Necromancer triggers, creating a zombie token.
- 3Volrath's Shapeshifter enters the battlefield as a copy of Whisper, Blood Liturgist.
- 4Activate Volrath's Shapeshifter, sacrificing itself and a zombie token to return Whisper, Blood Liturgist to the battlefield.
- 5Xathrid Necromancer triggers, creating a zombie token.
Whisper, Blood Liturgist + Volrath's Shapeshifter + Thousand-Year Elixir + Rotlung Reanimator
- 1Activate Whisper, Blood Liturgist, sacrificing itself and an additional creature to return Volrath's Shapeshifter from the graveyard to the battlefield.
- 2Rotlung Reanimator triggers, creating a zombie token.
- 3Volrath's Shapeshifter enters the battlefield as a copy of Whisper, Blood Liturgist.
- 4Activate Volrath's Shapeshifter, sacrificing itself and a zombie token to return Whisper, Blood Liturgist to the battlefield.
- 5Rotlung Reanimator triggers, creating a zombie token.
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