Cytoshape
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
DissensionDIS · #108
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.22 € · ★ 1.31 € · 0.43 $ · ★ 2.13 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue Green
Card text
Choose a nonlegendary creature on the battlefield. Target creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Alan Pollack
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2006-05-05
Flavour text
"Though highly effective at reshaping flesh, these specially bred cytoplasts leave the subject reeking of omnibian mucus." —Simic research notes
Rulings
A creature may become a copy of itself this way. This generally won’t have any visible effect.
At the end of the turn, the creature reverts to what it was before. If two Cytoshapes affect the same creature on the same turn, they’ll both wear off at the same time.
Effects that have already applied to the target creature will continue to apply to it. For example, if Giant Growth had given it +3/+3 earlier in the turn, then Cytoshape makes it a copy of Grizzly Bears, it will be a 5/5 Grizzly Bears.
If the creature becomes a copy of a face-down creature, it will become a 2/2 creature with no name, creature type, abilities, mana cost, or color. It will not become face-down and thus can’t be turned face up.
If the creature copies a creature that’s copying a creature, it will become whatever the chosen creature is copying.
Only the creature that’s becoming a copy is targeted. The creature that it will copy isn’t chosen until Cytoshape resolves.
The creature copies the printed values of the chosen creature, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on that creature. It won’t copy effects that have changed the creature’s power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
This effect can cause the target to stop being a creature. For example, if it becomes a copy of an animated Blinkmoth Nexus, the printed wording will be copied and it will become an unanimated Blinkmoth Nexus.