Polymorph
Ninth Edition 90 • rare
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 90
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Robert Bliss
- Market price
- $1.15
What it does
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Polymorph was originally introduced in the Mirage expansion in 1996, designed as a blue sorcery that reflects the chaotic nature of magical transformation. The card serves a unique tactical purpose by allowing a player to exile a creature they control to reveal cards from the top of their library until they hit another creature, which then enters the battlefield. This design leans into the 'polymorph' archetype, where players attempt to stack their decks with a single powerful threat to guarantee its arrival on the board.
For the Ninth Edition printing released in 2005, the artwork was provided by Robert Bliss. Bliss opted for a surreal, slightly unsettling depiction of transformation that emphasizes the visceral and unpredictable shift from one form to another. While the card mechanics have remained a staple in niche combo decks throughout the history of Magic: The Gathering, the Ninth Edition version is notable for being part of the Core Set era, which aimed to streamline the game's presentation for a broad audience while maintaining the iconic mechanical identity established in the mid-nineties.
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