Transmutation
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Chronicles Foreign Black BorderBCHR · #40
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.60 €
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- OldschoolLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Susan Van Camp
- Card language
- Japanese
- Release date
- 1995-07-01
Rulings
Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.
Effects that switch a creature's power and toughness apply after all other effects, regardless of when those effects began to apply. For instance, if you target a 1/2 creature then give it +2/+0 later in the turn, it's a 2/3 creature, not a 4/1 creature.
Switching a creature's power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.
