Transmutation
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
LegendsLEG · #123
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 1.01 € · 0.59 $
- 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
- English
- Release date
- 1994-06-01
Flavour text
"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!" —Randall
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.
