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Metamorphic Alteration

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaBlue mana

Most copy effects in blue point inward: clone the best creature on the board and take its stats and abilities for your side. This one points the other way. It rewrites any creature into a copy of a creature you choose, and the chosen creature can be a token, a 1/1, or some defanged body you sandbagged for exactly this purpose. The result is a removal spell wearing copy-magic clothes: turn the opposing bomb into a vanilla bear, or erase whatever made a creature dangerous by making it identical to one that does nothing. The Aura form is the price. It has no flash, so the answer only fires at sorcery speed; it sits on the battlefield afterward, vulnerable to enchantment removal; and the moment it leaves, the enchanted creature snaps back to itself. This is not exile or destruction but a temporary identity swap that holds only as long as the Aura does. Pointing it at your own board opens the upside lane: stamp your best creature onto a spare token, or assemble a squad of copies of whatever matters most. What keeps the card honest is that it can address almost any creature on either side, but never permanently and never at a profit in card count. You spend a card to neutralize a card, and you have to keep the Aura alive to keep the answer in place, which makes it an answer that never fully finishes its own job.

Metamorphic Alteration (pm19)
PM19 · #60srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature As this Aura enters, choose a creature. Enchanted creature is a copy of the chosen creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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