Aberrant Researcher // Perfected Form
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Shadows over InnistradSOI · #49
- Card type
- Creature — Human Insect
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.06 € · ★ 0.36 € · 0.05 $ · ★ 0.37 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If an instant or sorcery card was milled this way, transform this creature. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nils Hamm
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-04-08
Flavour text
"Metamorphosis is a process." —Laboratory notes
Perfected Form
Creature — Insect Horror
Flying
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 4
Rulings
If a replacement effect causes the top card of your library to go to a zone other than your graveyard, Aberrant Researcher will still transform if that card was an instant or sorcery card.
No player may take any action between the two steps of Aberrant Researcher's triggered ability. If the card put into your graveyard is an instant or sorcery card, Aberrant Researcher will have transformed before a player can take any action.
