Transmutation
Mana value2TypeInstant
Color identity Black
RarityCommon
SetChronicles (CHR)
ArtistSusan Van Camp
Price€0.16 · $0.16About this card
Transmutation is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 2 (color identity: black). First printed in Legends (1994); 3 paper printings in total. Legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cheapest printing: €0.16 (Chronicles); most expensive: €1.07 (Legends).
Transmutation
"You know what I was,/ You see what I am: change me, change me!" —Randall Jarrell, *The Woman at the Washington Zoo*
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2021-03-19
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.
2021-03-19
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.
2021-03-19
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.
2005-11-01
Note that the wording "Effects that alter the creature's power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn" has been removed.
