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Bloodline Pretender

4 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Bloodline Pretender, The List printing
The List PLST · No. KHM-235 2024-01-25

Card text

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Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) As this creature enters, choose a creature type. Whenever another creature you control of the chosen type enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
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Keywords: Changeling
EDHREC rank #1912 Uncommon Not on the Reserved List
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The 4 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

7 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

If an effect causes a creature with changeling to lose all abilities, it will remain all creature types, even though it will no longer have changeling. This is because changeling applies before the effect that removes it.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

The subtype Shapeshifter that appears on the type line is mostly there to reinforce the flavor. A creature card with changeling is just as much an Elf, a Dwarf, a Sliver, a Goat, a Coward, and a Zombie as it is a Shapeshifter.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

You must choose an existing creature type, such as Vampire or Druid. You can't choose card types (e.g., artifact) or supertypes (e.g., snow).

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If Bloodline Pretender enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, you can choose one of that creature's creature types and have Bloodline Pretender's last ability trigger for that other creature.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If Bloodline Pretender is somehow on the battlefield without a chosen creature type, its last ability can't trigger, even if a creature with no creature types enters the battlefield.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type. It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.

2021-02-05 · Wizards of the Coast

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