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Mistform Mutant

Creature — Illusion Mutant4 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

A block built around creature types needed cards that could lie about what a creature was, and the Mistform Illusions did exactly that. Most of them could only retype themselves, which made them passable enablers and little else. This one points the ability outward: for 1 generic manaBlue mana it rewrites any creature's type, friend or foe, as many times a turn as you have mana to spend. The difference is direction, because retyping an opponent's creature is rarely defensive. It is a setup tool. A creature that suddenly counts as the wrong tribe falls outside whatever lord or anthem was propping it up; a creature pushed into the right tribe walks into a tribal removal spell that named that type. The "other than Wall" clause is the lone guardrail, and it marks what the designers wanted off the table: granting the Wall type does not blank an attacker, but used at instant speed before attackers are declared, a free Defender stamp would have turned the ability into a recurring pre-combat tax rather than a clean retype. With that exclusion in place, the rest is wide open. The 3/4 body is incidental; the value is a repeatable, instant-speed answer in a world where what a creature is often mattered more than its stats. It reads as ordinary outside that world and as a toolbox inside it.

Mistform Mutant (ons)
ONS · #95uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.87
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic manaBlue mana: Choose a creature type other than Wall. Target creature becomes that type until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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