Crib Swap

Mana cost

Mana value3TypeKindred Instant — Shapeshifter Color identity

White RarityUncommon SetLorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) ArtistPete Venters Price€0.10 · foil €0.13 · $0.27

About this card

Crib Swap is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: white). First printed in Lorwyn (2007); 12 paper printings in total. Role in Commander: removal. It is one of the 5,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 2,467). Legal in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cheapest printing: €0.09 (Double Masters); most expensive: €0.44 (The List).

Crib Swap

Kindred Instant — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Exile target creature. Its controller creates a 1/1 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling.

Elsewhere in Lorwyn, nestled in a faerie ring, the coos of a small giant turned to cries.

Name in each language

FrançaisÉchange au berceauEnglishCrib SwapEspañolCambio de cunaDeutschWechselbalgItalianoScambio di CullaPortuguêsTroca de Berço日本語外身の交換

Changeling Shapeshifter

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardLegalPioneerLegalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperLegalBrawlLegalOathbreakerLegalHistoricLegalTimelessLegalPenny DreadfulNot legal

Rulings

2025-11-17
Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Morcant's Eyes is an Elf (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Elf card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.

2025-11-17
While it appears only on cards that already have other card types, kindred is a card type and will be counted by effects that refer to the number of card types among cards in a zone.

2025-11-17
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 a Kithkin, a Goblin, a Merfolk, and a Brushwagg as it is a Shapeshifter.

2025-11-17
Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.

2025-11-17
If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type (unless the effect says "in addition" or similar). It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.

2025-11-17
Some older cards were originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred." This change does not affect the gameplay function of these cards.

2025-11-17
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.

2024-06-07
Kindred is a card type that allows noncreature cards to have creature types. For example, Echoes of Eternity is an Eldrazi (although not a creature) while on the battlefield and an Eldrazi card (although not a creature card) in zones other than the battlefield.

2024-06-07
This card was originally printed with the "tribal" card type. That card type has been replaced with "kindred". This change does not affect the gameplay function of this card.

2020-08-07
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Crib Swap tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. No player will create a Shapeshifter token.

2020-08-07
Changeling applies in all zones, not just the battlefield.

2020-08-07
Kindred is a card type (like creature or instant), not a supertype (like legendary).