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Omnipresent Impostor

Basic Creature — Shapeshifter2 generic mana

Changeling has always been a name-matching mechanic: a creature that is every creature type at once. This one takes the same premise and runs it through the rules stack in a direction the keyword never touched, declaring it has every card name. That single line reroutes an entire category of effects. Any search that specifies a card by name can find this instead, and because a library search that names a card almost always fetches exactly that card, the impostor becomes a legal target for tutors that were never meant to grab a 2/1. The bonus clause on the card formalizes the more mundane version: when you search for lands or creatures or anything by criteria, you may choose this as one of the cards you find, so a fetch effect doubles as a way to grab a body wherever it was headed. It is a joke design at the level of the flavor (a shapeshifter so total it answers to any name in the game) and a genuine combinatorial toy at the level of the rules, since "all card names" interacts with every corner of the game that keys off names: naming effects, sacrifice-a-card-named-X requirements, choosing counters. The 2/1 changeling body is almost incidental. What the card actually costs, mechanically, is a designer's willingness to let one creature satisfy a template that assumes names are unique, and most of the fun is finding where that assumption was load-bearing.

Omnipresent Impostor (mb2)
MB2 · #504rare
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Rules text

Changeling Omnipresent Impostor has all card names. As you search your library for one or more cards, you may choose Omnipresent Impostor as one of those cards. (For example, if you search for two land cards, you may find Omnipresent Impostor and a land card.)
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Standard
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Pauper
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Timeless
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Standard Brawl
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