Primal Clay
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
AntiquitiesATQ · #61
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 3.51 € · 3.47 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- *
- Toughness
- *
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- OldschoolLegal
- 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
- Kaja Foglio
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1994-03-04
Rulings
If an object enters the battlefield as a copy of Primal Clay, it copies the values determined by its enters-the-battlefield replacement effect, but its power and toughness are determined by the copy's own enters-the-battlefield replacement effect. This can cause you to have a 3/3 creature with flying, or a 1/6 creature with flying and defender, for example.
If an object on the battlefield becomes a copy of Primal Clay, it copies the values determined by its enters-the-battlefield replacement effect.
While not on the battlefield, Primal Clay is a 0/0 creature card. It doesn't have flying or defender.
