Printings
Transmutation
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Chronicles (CHR)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 40
Oracle Text
Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 19, 2021
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.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
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.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
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.
Source: wotc - November 1, 2005
Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.
Source: wotc
Price History
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