On the magic show they were talking about this awesome strategy with this, use hakkon to play the instant from your graveyard (it has creature type that is all types because of its changeling ability), and you can re-play it as many times as you want since after you use it the instant is sent right back to your graveyard. Thereby every turn you can turn all your opponents creatures into 1/1 colorless shapeshifters.
If by funniest you mean most inexplicably horrifying...
TheAlucinaut
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
The crazy thing is the first time I saw this card I was unsettled by the art/flavor & set it aside. I eventually got past that & run a few in my R/W deck as it's some damn solid removal.
But still, I wish it had different flavor, as the look of distress on the lil Kithkin Momma haunts me. What the hell are the changeling creeps doing with her baby?!
babylonian007
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(5 votes)
So much flavor. Awesome.
Vedalken_Arbiter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now make the Kithkin look like Angelina Jolie and we've got a shameless movie plug.
Gwoemul
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Now I have a stack of twenty I keep aside for when I cast Spawnsire of Ulamog
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(9 votes)
Feels a little weird if you play it on something like Hazduhr the Abbot.... Most Magic creatures I can think of should be out of their cribs by now.
Fitchen_Kinks
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(4 votes)
lol dat changeling looks so smug
Sironos
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
should have a "with converted mana cost X or less" to make it more flavourful maybe, stealing a 1000 year old vampiric dragon from the crib seems weird.
Weary_PSI
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Might seem odd to Crib Swap something like Hazdhur, but I think the idea there would be that the swap happened a long time ago and it's only just now (in the midst of battle) that everyone realizes the creature is not what they've always seemed. It's actually a rather well-designed card from a flavor perspective because it gains a great degree of nuance depending on the situation.
Oh, and sound removal too, although it's unfortunately outclassed by stuff like Unmake and Path of Exile.
Diachronos
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Goes quite nicely with Coat of Arms if you're targeting one of your own creatures. Congratulations, your 1st-turn drop just turned into a giant freaking monster!
TDL
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(10 votes)
I thought this art was hilarious... Then I had a thought. What happened to the baby? Now I think it's terrifying.
Danveldo
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
So...This card gets rid of 2 Things on my opponents field in a Scarecrow deck with Reaper King
SuperSphinx
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Poor Kithkin mommy... I think the Kithkin are a really beautiful tribe, with their huge glass-like eyes. This card makes me sad... though I can't deny it's decent.
TongueSlicer
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
omg someone has crib swapped her baby!
Kyzar
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
maybe my favorite art on a magic card. i just picture the lil changeling going "wehee!!!"
supershawn
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
reaper king doesn't work, it's your opponent who get's the token. (or the player who controls the creature you target) you could however cast it on your own creature to trigger reaper king but I'm sure there's better ways to trigger him.
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Run this in a black and white knight deck which uses haakon. With the changeling ability you'll be stealing babies like Angelina Jolie in no time!
Entropic_Acolyte
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(8 votes)
I think this card has a place in New Phyrexia.
I will likely make a black/white deck with a few of these in it, so I can say:
"Your child will serve the Father of Machines. In its place, your very own Sleeper Agent."
If you think the changeling abduction is scary, what about a Phyrexian one? Remember, this card counts as a Horror too... (and an Advisor Goat Ninja, for that matter)
Zan-zan-zawa-veia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think this might be the most horrifying card they've printed so far.
IUHoosier
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The scariness of this card rivals the most frightening Innistrad cards.
Mesmerist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Supershawn Cribswap works because it's a changeling tribal spell which means it counts as a scarecrow spell being played.
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ghoulcaller's chant lets you fetch a creature and some removal for the low, low cost of .
OpeeFomenom
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Weary_PSI
That would be believable except for one detail about changelings: They are clearly seen as changelings. Their transformation does not allow them to blend in at all. If he was swapped years ago and it was now apparent, they would have known right when he was swapped. Just like in the picture.
RunedServitor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ WearyPSI: You can't cast Unmake or Path to Exile from the top of your library for free with Leaf-Crowned Elder. Neither can you cast them from your graveyard with Haakon. Neither can you cast WAY TOO MANY of them by pouring 20 mana into Spawnsire of Ulamog (although at that point you've probably won anyway). This, however, you can!
I don't usually say cards are better than other cards based on their interactions with yet other cards, but in this case, those interactions are worth building a deck around.
humor_love
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I'll grant that Path is cheaper, but I think this is generally a better play than Path toward the beginning of the game.
Swords would generally be the best of the bunch early game. However, the only thing that Swords has over Crib Swap, in almost all circumstances, is that it's {2} cheaper - which isn't always a big deal. Especially in a deck with half-way effective mana-ramp, Crib Swap is an excellent card - playable by your second turn/land drop.
In any other color, this card would be rated much closer to 5.
Alsebra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Mesmerist - It would work...but Reaper King will only destroy something if a Scarecrow creature would come into play under your control. Unless you killed off your own creature, you'd not get to destroy anything (since the spell doesn't 'enter the battlefield').
@ Weary-PSI, your comment got me envisioning a baby Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre... if such a thing exists.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@WrathofShane: Funny how you CAN'T. This isn't a creature card. This is a Tribal Instant with all creature types. For it to be a creature card, there has to be the word Creature up there where Instant is. Whether or not it has any creature types is irrelevant.
Now, you could snatch it back with Ghoulcaller's Chant, as that calls for two Zombie cards, which this is. It is a card with the Zombie subtype.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
It's worth noting that in British Isles lore, this is what changelings WERE. It was thought that sometimes, the Fair Folk (specific types of them, anyway; the only specific ones I remember doing the changeling trick are spriggans) would take a human baby and leave a faerie baby in its place, like a cowbird or cuckoo would, except that they would raise the human baby themselves. Meanwhile, the hapless humans usually found "their" child growing up to be cantankerous, temperamental, disobedient, willful, etc. Sadly, it looks like this might have stemmed from some parents unwilling to acknowledge--or believe--that their parenting skills were sub-par. As far as they knew, they did everything right. The only explanation left--the kid isn't really human! They're a spriggan! (Did I mention that spriggans were usually also pretty ugly?)
Opined_Fluke
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@ Axelle That was my nickname back in high-school. *Gets arrested.*
Reishyn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's strange that, despite all the gruesome cards of black like Terror, Distress, Mutilate that have never once phased me, this is the one card with flavour that creeps me out. A white card no less. I used to avoid using this card just because thinking about it's implications unnerved me whenever I had it in my hand.
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But still, I wish it had different flavor, as the look of distress on the lil Kithkin Momma haunts me. What the hell are the changeling creeps doing with her baby?!
Oh, and sound removal too, although it's unfortunately outclassed by stuff like Unmake and Path of Exile.
Then I had a thought.
What happened to the baby?
Now I think it's terrifying.
I will likely make a black/white deck with a few of these in it, so I can say:
"Your child will serve the Father of Machines. In its place, your very own Sleeper Agent."
If you think the changeling abduction is scary, what about a Phyrexian one? Remember, this card counts as a Horror too... (and an Advisor Goat Ninja, for that matter)
That would be believable except for one detail about changelings: They are clearly seen as changelings. Their transformation does not allow them to blend in at all. If he was swapped years ago and it was now apparent, they would have known right when he was swapped. Just like in the picture.
I don't usually say cards are better than other cards based on their interactions with yet other cards, but in this case, those interactions are worth building a deck around.
Swords would generally be the best of the bunch early game. However, the only thing that Swords has over Crib Swap, in almost all circumstances, is that it's {2} cheaper - which isn't always a big deal. Especially in a deck with half-way effective mana-ramp, Crib Swap is an excellent card - playable by your second turn/land drop.
In any other color, this card would be rated much closer to 5.
Now, you could snatch it back with Ghoulcaller's Chant, as that calls for two Zombie cards, which this is. It is a card with the Zombie subtype.
That was my nickname back in high-school. *Gets arrested.*