What a strange card. It combines a little information with a random threat, but it seems like the first effect is too minor and the second too unreliable to really find a home in any manner of Constructed deck. Maybe if it cost a little less... Even in Limited, though, when won't you be better off just playing another creature?
rubber
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Just a casual card. Careful timing makes it worthwhile, for example Forced Retreat or Lost Hours. Not anywhere near worth it in a tournament, and not something to bother trying in limited, but fun in casual.
Fictionarious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
QUESTION: Shapeshifter's Marrow specifies on the card and in the rulings that it (Shapeshifter's Marrow, referring to the card itself not just the creature/enchantment it might be at any given time) becomes a copy of the creature revealed on your opponent's library. If I then return it to my hand with Vedalken Mastermind, will I return a copy of my opponent's creature card to my hand, right down to the mana cost, ready to be played again? Or will it go back to being an enchantment in my hand again?
morticianjohn
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
if it gets returned to your hand it is no longer a creature so you'd replay it for 4 mana as an enchantment
eWok87
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If the trigger ability was recurring and it constantly changed, that would be quite interesting, the could even add a colorless to the cost and I would use it frequently.
Really interesting idea... if you had the ability to look at your opponents deck with something like Orcish Spy, you could reliably steal one of your opponents big creatures.... Sort of combining a counter spell and a clone in one fell swoop.
Very efficient card if you could get it to work reliably.
3/5
Daikoru
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Copy that 0/0 Graft creature, and your Marrow goes straight to the graveyard too! If it wasn't for that, I would have picked it for my Copy deck, some of my shapeshifters are 0/0s too.
IndianaWalsh
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Turn 1: Island, Black lotus, Shapeshifter's marrow Opponent's turn 1: Stare intently until your opponent reveals Progenitus.
Why do they have Chippy, one of Magic's most awesome artists IMO, draw so many Drakes, one of Magic's wussiest creatures?
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is interesting, original and flavorful, but it's too risky and costy to se play IMHO. For you can get better cards to win...
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@lorendorky - I guess the one good thing about having Chippy draw art for crap cards is that I can afford to have all the cards with Chippy's art...
And I agree Chippy's one of the best. Notice how this is tailor-made to look awesome in the "future style" art format? It would actually look weirdly diagonalized in a standard rectangle. Bridge From Below and Tarmogoyf (both great cards) looks like crap in the future sight border; this drake-copier looks amazing.
Though, is it really a crap card? Using Jace TMS to fateseal the opponent every turn, you would have greater control over which creature Marrow becomes. I guess the question's really whether a Jace-combo card is really worth it given that you already spent on Jace.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Risky? Perhaps. But the ability to copy anything before it even hits the field is tempting. Run with Spin into Myth if you want to just copy a creature.
Worst case, your opponent plays no creatures (which is unlikely) and you only get to see what they draw. Best case, you get one of their bombs or a usefull utillity creature.
jonrds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of those cards that probably still wouldn't be broken if it cost 2 less.
amberbock
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Surprised no one said Time Ebb a card already good in its own right.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It is cool, but Control Magic is much more reliable and requires far less work.
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Shapeshifter's Marrow specifies on the card and in the rulings that it (Shapeshifter's Marrow, referring to the card itself not just the creature/enchantment it might be at any given time) becomes a copy of the creature revealed on your opponent's library. If I then return it to my hand with Vedalken Mastermind, will I return a copy of my opponent's creature card to my hand, right down to the mana cost, ready to be played again? Or will it go back to being an enchantment in my hand again?
Very efficient card if you could get it to work reliably.
3/5
Opponent's turn 1: Stare intently until your opponent reveals Progenitus.
There are a surprising number of things that can help this:
Cruel Fate, Mesmeric Sliver, Misinformation, Painful Memories, Precognition, Sealed Fate, Second Sigh, Spin Into Myth, Tahngarth's Glare, Ether Well.
(Jace? Who's Jace? Screw him.)
And I agree Chippy's one of the best. Notice how this is tailor-made to look awesome in the "future style" art format? It would actually look weirdly diagonalized in a standard rectangle. Bridge From Below and Tarmogoyf (both great cards) looks like crap in the future sight border; this drake-copier looks amazing.
Though, is it really a crap card? Using Jace TMS to fateseal the opponent every turn, you would have greater control over which creature Marrow becomes. I guess the question's really whether a
But the ability to copy anything before it even hits the field is tempting. Run with Spin into Myth if you want to just copy a creature.
Best case, you get one of their bombs or a usefull utillity creature.