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Nascent Metamorph

Creature — Shapeshifter1 generic manaBlue mana

Cloning is usually a choice: you pick what to copy, you know what you're getting, you pay for the certainty. This one hands the pilot process instead of a target. Every time the 1/1 swings or blocks, it digs into an opponent's library and becomes the first creature it turns up, then buries the revealed cards on the bottom in a random order. The result is a body whose identity is dictated by whatever the table happens to be running, resolved fresh each combat, and never the same threat twice in a way you can plan around. That randomness is the price for a two-mana clone that reaches across a spread of opponents rather than a single chosen creature, and it reframes the card from a value engine into a read on the metagame around it: the fatter the decks the table is packing, the better the coin lands. The bottom-of-library reorder does quiet work too, scrambling an opponent's known draws in the course of resolving the copy. And the trigger only fires in the red zone, so committing this to combat means betting on a copy you haven't seen: whatever the top of that library yields has to beat a bare Shapeshifter body. It is a design built for chaos rather than precision, and it is honest about which one it's selling.

Nascent Metamorph (c20)
C20 · #36rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, target opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. This creature becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Then that player puts all cards revealed this way on the bottom of their library in a random order.
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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