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Woodland Changeling

Creature — Shapeshifter1 generic manaGreen mana

The mono-green entry in a cycle of changelings, and proof that the keyword does most of the heavy lifting regardless of color. Strip away the type line and this is a 2/2 for two: the dictionary-definition bear, the body Wizards has priced a thousand creatures against. What the changeling line adds is total type membership, which turns an unremarkable stat sheet into a flexible body for any tribal shell that cares which type a creature is rather than how big it is. It is an Elf for the Elf payoff, a Goblin for the Goblin lord, a Warrior or a Wizard or a Treefolk on demand, all without spending a word on a relevant ability. That choice is deliberate: handing the card every type at once lets a single common slot fill a tribal gap in any direction, which is why these blank-bodied shapeshifters get reprinted across color identities whenever a set wants cheap, type-agnostic creature count. The cost of that universality is that the card brings nothing else: no evasion, no triggered ability, no reason to run it outside a deck built around a shared creature type. It is the cleanest test of whether a tribal payoff is strong enough to justify a body with no other text, and green's two-drop is the most generically castable version of that test.

Woodland Changeling (lrw)
LRW · #242common
Pricing
Normal: $0.62
Foil: $6.16
Oracle Text

Rules text

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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