This card is superb, but it's even more fun in casual. One of my friends has a deck that uses it in conjunction with the chimeras. (Brass-Talon Chimera, Iron-Heart Chimera, Lead-Belly Chimera, Tin-Wing Chimera) Doubling abilities are really insane, and possibly some of the Timmiest out there..
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
@ Darthparallax, there's a reason for printing in this "From the Vaults".
Since Wizards is celebrating Magic's 20th anniversary, they printed this with a card from each years Standard tournament that made a big deal. The article that explains this is here: (http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/259). Go down to "Twenty cards from From the Vault: 20)
In short, Chameleon Colossus was an amazing finisher in some guys Black/Green Elves deck in 2008. Mistform Ultimus probably wasn't (not that you thought it would be).
master_biomancer
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(6 votes)
I don't think this needs mentioning but this is an amazing card for equipment/Aura decks and it is a very power card against the right deck ---- @DarthParalllax congrats on becoming the next TimmyForever --
DarthParallax
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(10 votes)
I am sorry but as I hate Changelings, I cannot give this a good rating -_- I'd prefer it if they'd Vaulted Mistform Ultimus. :P Yes, I'm one of Those Guys.
I know it was like, powerful and crap or whatever? But I mean, so are a lot of the M14 Slivers and those all suck too. :P I am a fuddy-duddy from a bygone era.....
"These Times, They Are A-Change..ling"
No hard feels :) <3
I mean....Ferlord is right and all....I am saying that, for the 2008 slot, they should have picked a different high profile card. Like, say, Bitterblossom. Since you know, Faeries completely raped everyone a bit there, kinda anally, and therefore since I don't think Bitterblossom is legal in Modern, it was not in Modern Masters, and people would have eaten that up. :P
Something from a BOGEYMAN deck, not just something that did well for a season. Something that from a deck that was so cool and powerful that Wizards decided it didn't want newer seasons to have decks like that, causing them to try to power-creep in a downward direction. :P I wanted THOSE kinds of cards. The ones that feel like From the Vault Exiled and Relics. :)
And there actually have been cards like that from every year of Magic, so they could have.
master-biomancer LoL: I've been around Gatherer way longer than all the Trolls except MOE. And I question my own opinions often, even though I stand up for what I like pretty hard, which is something that definitively separates me from trolls. I miss Master of Etherium though. HE WAS FUNNY :D WHERE DID HE GO? I HOPE THEY MAKE A CARD OUT OF HIM XD
Habreno
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
With Theros just over the horizon, this guy is about to become a god... not that he wasn't already.
ParallaxtheRevan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
It's legitimate to judge a card by many criterion, not just one.
For Timmy, Spike, and Johnny, it's OK to say "this card is for you/this card is NOT for you"
For the Color Wheel, it's ok to argue *what* belongs in what color, or what colors could use a change, a New Thing, but it's NOT okay to say "yeah but the Color Pie just doesn't matter this time."
For the Melvin-Vorthos issues, it's NOT ok, in my opinion, to say that it's alright for a card to be "Not for Vorthos", OR "Not for Melvin", because every Jank Limited Playable Common proves that you can design, literally, thousands of cards of any kind you want that please The Color Wheel, Vorthos and Melvin all at the same time, irregardless of whether the card is "Also a Timmy card", "Also a Johnny card", or "Also a Spike card"
This card to me immediately hits Timmy nicely- it's a Green fatty, and TimmyForever *really* hates Blue and Black, so Protection from the Horribly Unfun Counterspell or Doom Blade colors is always nice. :)
For Johnny, there's admittedly a lot of "AHA!" moments you can have just from the Changeling keyword and the Shapeshifter type, not to mention that it's got a Doubling Ability, and we all know Johnny likes Doubling.
For Spike, he *loves* that this is a 4/4 for four mana with pseudo Evasion *and* is harder to Remove. (Protection can be used offensively and defensively- unblockable as well as untargetable! sorry for the "Duh" moment xP )
So Johnny, Spike, and Timmy all like this card. Well- why isn't it PERFECT for the Vault then? I don't know what Melvin thinks of it in the context of Lorwyn Block, but in the context of this commemorative Box, Melvin appreciates it was a high-impact Tournament Staple.
Here is the Thing:
Look at Limited Edition: Alpha. I would be fairly unsurprised if Spike and Johnny couldn't find ten whole cards they liked in the whole set. That set is FULL TO THE BRIM of cards for Melvin and Vorthos and Timmy though. Vorthos pretty much loves every card in Alpha.
Spike DOES love the Power, a little *too much*...but there aren't many of them, and they're all Blue, Black, or Artifact (extend your definition of "Power" here). and anyway the problem is that Spike and Melvin are at complete odds over Alpha, when *normally* Melvin and Spike tend to agree on things, and Timmy and Vorthos tend to agree to disagree with Melvin and Spike. Spike might even be able to find a handful of cards in other colors he likes, but.....in a 295 card set, Spike *really does* have trouble composing a "Top 10 Green" or "Top 10 White" cards. That's a huge problem.
Vorthos is divided into two camps over the Changeling type: Those who say "That is the flavor of Lorwyn" and those who say "That is Not the flavor of Magic as a whole".
It's ok for Magic to redefine itself, but just how okay is it to stray from the Core? From Alpha? At what point do you say "we can keep making this changing, evolving, game, but we need to change the name too, and this is no longer Magic, and it will not keep the next name we pick either."
Vorthos asks questions like this, and some Vorthoses disagree with the Changeling Mechanic. Because it's more important for cards to be "For Vorthos And for Melvin" than it is for them to be "For Johnny, For Timmy, or For Spike", then this card's "Vaultability" is questionable.
Sabisent
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Allow me to demonstrate this card’s true potential.
Turn 2: Forest, Glimpse of Nature (3 Cards in Hand) Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Memnite, Memnite, Memnite, Memnite, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker Battle Hymn (all lands tapped now) for 24 {R} Dragon Storm Dragon Storm copies itself 26 times, search for: 4x Draco 4x Hellkite Overlord 4x Zodiac Dragon 4x Broodmate Dragon 3x Balefire Dragon 1 Moonveil Dragon Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund Nicol Bolas Arcades Sabbath Chromium Palladia-Mors Vaevictis Asmadi And Chameleon Colossus. (1 Card in hand) Dangerous Wager, Gaea’s Cradle, tap the cradle. Mana pool is now 55{G} and 17{R}. Harmonize 3 times (7 cards in hand). Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures get +56/+56 Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures gain +57/+57 Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures gain +58/+58 (4 cards in hand) Mana Pool is now 27{G} and 13{R}. Use Chameleon Colossus’s ability 8 times, bringing his power to 45,824. Fungal Sprouting. Mana pool is now 5{G} 2{R} Drop a Candelabra of Tawnos, and untap Gaea’s Cradle for 45883{G}. Use Chameleon Colossus’s ability a further 11463 times, bringing his power to approximately 2.333x10^3455. Mana pool is now 38{G}, 2{R}. 2 Cards in hand. Overwhelming Stampede. All creatures, including the colossus, get +2.333x10^3455/+2.333x10^3455. 1 card left in hand. Pay 2 life for Gitaxian probe. Cast Reforge the Soul for its miracle cost. Draw 7 Cards. Mana Pool is currently 37{G} and 1{R}. Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +4.666x10^3455/+4.666x10^3455 Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +9.332x10^3455/+9.332x10^3455 Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +1.866x10^3456/+1.866x10^34556. Chameleon Colossus’s power is now 3.732x10^3456. Fungal Sprouting. Play the final Craterhoof Behemoth, giving each creature (slightly more than) +3.732x10^3456/+3.732x10^3456. With the final 1{G} and 1{R}, cast Battle Hymn, and activate Moonveil Dragon’s ability (slightly more than) 3732x10^3456 times. Swing for 8.295 270 849 113 420 273 720 667 025 234 984 257 159 156 113 271 842 594 461 996 862 572 769 257 648 541 961 573 186 664 679 441 999 460 783 502 898 959 791 785 350 263 879 433 632 403 964 500 129 588 905 389 901 376 324 306 368 576 206 467 714 367 467 778 722 014 113 867 519 691 364 100 468 757 326 181 593 517 217 419 212 480 450 639 167 366 726 962 908 182 661 292 517 623 377 276 260 414 669 413 227 927 931 065 056 807 306 370 559 795 636 870 649 862 330 863 918 875 028 678 544 937 050 429 853 227 438 555 263 284 954 564 955 380 849 276 163 609 467 136 049 945 102 733 898 782 964 222 348 553 201 142 226 528 995 183 891 344 583 561 820 800 934 701 188 865 6e+6902 damage. (830 Quintillion Nonagintillion Ducentillion Billinillion, a number 6902 digits long)
This is approximately equal to the number of particles in the universe, to the power of 79.
And you still have another card in hand so you can Mental Misstep them if they play a fog. If they play another, beat them to death with their own chair.
BlazeB75
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not a general, but he is an Advisor!
n8dog8freefood
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
man this card in a mono green sliver deck look at all those new slivers that it would be great with!!!
Urzasbeard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"I don't always believe in the heart of the cards, but when I do... I beat my opponent to death with their own chair." --Sabisent
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Analyzing in a vacuum. Body equal to cmc and a very good protection ability. 4 toughness puts him out of lightning bolt range and he doesnt die to doom blade.
On your first swing with him, you can threaten to make him an 8/8. Eight freaking eight. That alone is either pseudo evasion or pseudo removal, depending if your opponent is willing to get hit. If they choose not to block you are free to cast something else or pay 4 for 4 extra damage. If you hit eight mana, you can beef him up to 16/16.
Basically its a very efficient card and it has a built in win condition as well. A basic green beatdown deck could run x4 of this and it would be a strong backbone.
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Also: that's one weird looking pirate.
Since Wizards is celebrating Magic's 20th anniversary, they printed this with a card from each years Standard tournament that made a big deal. The article that explains this is here: (http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/259). Go down to "Twenty cards from From the Vault: 20)
In short, Chameleon Colossus was an amazing finisher in some guys Black/Green Elves deck in 2008. Mistform Ultimus probably wasn't (not that you thought it would be).
I know it was like, powerful and crap or whatever? But I mean, so are a lot of the M14 Slivers and those all suck too. :P I am a fuddy-duddy from a bygone era.....
"These Times, They Are A-Change..ling"
No hard feels :) <3
I mean....Ferlord is right and all....I am saying that, for the 2008 slot, they should have picked a different high profile card. Like, say, Bitterblossom. Since you know, Faeries completely raped everyone a bit there, kinda anally, and therefore since I don't think Bitterblossom is legal in Modern, it was not in Modern Masters, and people would have eaten that up. :P
Something from a BOGEYMAN deck, not just something that did well for a season. Something that from a deck that was so cool and powerful that Wizards decided it didn't want newer seasons to have decks like that, causing them to try to power-creep in a downward direction. :P I wanted THOSE kinds of cards. The ones that feel like From the Vault Exiled and Relics. :)
And there actually have been cards like that from every year of Magic, so they could have.
master-biomancer LoL: I've been around Gatherer way longer than all the Trolls except MOE. And I question my own opinions often, even though I stand up for what I like pretty hard, which is something that definitively separates me from trolls. I miss Master of Etherium though. HE WAS FUNNY :D WHERE DID HE GO? I HOPE THEY MAKE A CARD OUT OF HIM XD
For Timmy, Spike, and Johnny, it's OK to say "this card is for you/this card is NOT for you"
For the Color Wheel, it's ok to argue *what* belongs in what color, or what colors could use a change, a New Thing, but it's NOT okay to say "yeah but the Color Pie just doesn't matter this time."
For the Melvin-Vorthos issues, it's NOT ok, in my opinion, to say that it's alright for a card to be "Not for Vorthos", OR "Not for Melvin", because every Jank Limited Playable Common proves that you can design, literally, thousands of cards of any kind you want that please The Color Wheel, Vorthos and Melvin all at the same time, irregardless of whether the card is "Also a Timmy card", "Also a Johnny card", or "Also a Spike card"
This card to me immediately hits Timmy nicely- it's a Green fatty, and TimmyForever *really* hates Blue and Black, so Protection from the Horribly Unfun Counterspell or Doom Blade colors is always nice. :)
For Johnny, there's admittedly a lot of "AHA!" moments you can have just from the Changeling keyword and the Shapeshifter type, not to mention that it's got a Doubling Ability, and we all know Johnny likes Doubling.
For Spike, he *loves* that this is a 4/4 for four mana with pseudo Evasion *and* is harder to Remove.
(Protection can be used offensively and defensively- unblockable as well as untargetable! sorry for the "Duh" moment xP )
So Johnny, Spike, and Timmy all like this card. Well- why isn't it PERFECT for the Vault then?
I don't know what Melvin thinks of it in the context of Lorwyn Block, but in the context of this commemorative Box, Melvin appreciates it was a high-impact Tournament Staple.
Here is the Thing:
Look at Limited Edition: Alpha. I would be fairly unsurprised if Spike and Johnny couldn't find ten whole cards they liked in the whole set. That set is FULL TO THE BRIM of cards for Melvin and Vorthos and Timmy though. Vorthos pretty much loves every card in Alpha.
Spike DOES love the Power, a little *too much*...but there aren't many of them, and they're all Blue, Black, or Artifact (extend your definition of "Power" here). and anyway the problem is that Spike and Melvin are at complete odds over Alpha, when *normally* Melvin and Spike tend to agree on things, and Timmy and Vorthos tend to agree to disagree with Melvin and Spike. Spike might even be able to find a handful of cards in other colors he likes, but.....in a 295 card set, Spike *really does* have trouble composing a "Top 10 Green" or "Top 10 White" cards. That's a huge problem.
Vorthos is divided into two camps over the Changeling type: Those who say "That is the flavor of Lorwyn" and those who say "That is Not the flavor of Magic as a whole".
It's ok for Magic to redefine itself, but just how okay is it to stray from the Core? From Alpha? At what point do you say "we can keep making this changing, evolving, game, but we need to change the name too, and this is no longer Magic, and it will not keep the next name we pick either."
Vorthos asks questions like this, and some Vorthoses disagree with the Changeling Mechanic. Because it's more important for cards to be "For Vorthos And for Melvin" than it is for them to be "For Johnny, For Timmy, or For Spike", then this card's "Vaultability" is questionable.
Turn 1: Forest, Exploration, Mountain, Mass Hysteria (4 Cards in Hand)
Turn 2: Forest, Glimpse of Nature (3 Cards in Hand)
Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crimson Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Kobolds of Ker Keep, Memnite, Memnite, Memnite, Memnite, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker, Phyrexian Walker
Battle Hymn (all lands tapped now) for 24 {R}
Dragon Storm
Dragon Storm copies itself 26 times, search for:
4x Draco
4x Hellkite Overlord
4x Zodiac Dragon
4x Broodmate Dragon
3x Balefire Dragon
1 Moonveil Dragon
Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
Nicol Bolas
Arcades Sabbath
Chromium
Palladia-Mors
Vaevictis Asmadi
And Chameleon Colossus.
(1 Card in hand) Dangerous Wager, Gaea’s Cradle, tap the cradle. Mana pool is now 55{G} and 17{R}.
Harmonize 3 times (7 cards in hand).
Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures get +56/+56
Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures gain +57/+57
Craterhoof Behemoth, all creatures gain +58/+58 (4 cards in hand)
Mana Pool is now 27{G} and 13{R}. Use Chameleon Colossus’s ability 8 times, bringing his power to 45,824. Fungal Sprouting.
Mana pool is now 5{G} 2{R}
Drop a Candelabra of Tawnos, and untap Gaea’s Cradle for 45883{G}.
Use Chameleon Colossus’s ability a further 11463 times, bringing his power to approximately 2.333x10^3455. Mana pool is now 38{G}, 2{R}. 2 Cards in hand.
Overwhelming Stampede. All creatures, including the colossus, get +2.333x10^3455/+2.333x10^3455. 1 card left in hand.
Pay 2 life for Gitaxian probe. Cast Reforge the Soul for its miracle cost. Draw 7 Cards. Mana Pool is currently 37{G} and 1{R}.
Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +4.666x10^3455/+4.666x10^3455
Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +9.332x10^3455/+9.332x10^3455
Overwhelming stampede, all creatures get +1.866x10^3456/+1.866x10^34556.
Chameleon Colossus’s power is now 3.732x10^3456.
Fungal Sprouting.
Play the final Craterhoof Behemoth, giving each creature (slightly more than) +3.732x10^3456/+3.732x10^3456. With the final 1{G} and 1{R}, cast Battle Hymn, and activate Moonveil Dragon’s ability (slightly more than) 3732x10^3456 times.
Swing for 8.295 270 849 113 420 273 720 667 025 234 984 257 159 156 113 271 842 594 461 996 862 572 769 257 648 541 961 573 186 664 679 441 999 460 783 502 898 959 791 785 350 263 879 433 632 403 964 500 129 588 905 389 901 376 324 306 368 576 206 467 714 367 467 778 722 014 113 867 519 691 364 100 468 757 326 181 593 517 217 419 212 480 450 639 167 366 726 962 908 182 661 292 517 623 377 276 260 414 669 413 227 927 931 065 056 807 306 370 559 795 636 870 649 862 330 863 918 875 028 678 544 937 050 429 853 227 438 555 263 284 954 564 955 380 849 276 163 609 467 136 049 945 102 733 898 782 964 222 348 553 201 142 226 528 995 183 891 344 583 561 820 800 934 701 188 865 6e+6902 damage. (830 Quintillion Nonagintillion Ducentillion Billinillion, a number 6902 digits long)
This is approximately equal to the number of particles in the universe, to the power of 79.
And you still have another card in hand so you can Mental Misstep them if they play a fog. If they play another, beat them to death with their own chair.
I beat my opponent to death with their own chair." --Sabisent
On your first swing with him, you can threaten to make him an 8/8. Eight freaking eight. That alone is either pseudo evasion or pseudo removal, depending if your opponent is willing to get hit. If they choose not to block you are free to cast something else or pay 4 for 4 extra damage. If you hit eight mana, you can beef him up to 16/16.
Basically its a very efficient card and it has a built in win condition as well. A basic green beatdown deck could run x4 of this and it would be a strong backbone.