Shyft
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ice AgeICE · #96
- Card type
- Creature — Shapeshifter
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.39 € · 0.42 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 4
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have this creature become the color or colors of your choice. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Richard Thomas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1995-06-03
Flavour text
"Capturing this specimen was not easy. Study it well, that you someday might be as versatile." —Gerda Äagesdotter, Archmage of the Unseen
Rulings
Shyft’s ability won’t let you make it colorless. Colorless is not a color.
The ability’s effect has no duration. Shyft will remain the chosen color or colors until the game ends, it leaves the battlefield, or some other effect (such as the next time its ability resolves) changes its colors.
