Bloodline Pretender

Format legality

Where you can play Bloodline Pretender in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings (4)

Prices range from $1.32 to $2.63 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Kaldheim at $1.32.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (7).

• 2021-02-05If Bloodline Pretender enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, you can choose one of that creature's creature types and have Bloodline Pretender's last ability trigger for that other creature.
• 2021-02-05If Bloodline Pretender is somehow on the battlefield without a chosen creature type, its last ability can't trigger, even if a creature with no creature types enters the battlefield.
• 2021-02-05Changeling is a characteristic-defining ability. It functions in all zones, not only while a card that has it is on the battlefield.
• 2021-02-05The subtype Shapeshifter that appears on the type line is mostly there to reinforce the flavor. A creature card with changeling is just as much an Elf, a Dwarf, a Sliver, a Goat, a Coward, and a Zombie as it is a Shapeshifter.
• 2021-02-05If an effect causes a creature with changeling to become a new creature type, it will be only that new creature type. It will still have changeling; the effect making it all creature types will simply be overwritten.
• 2021-02-05If an effect causes a creature with changeling to lose all abilities, it will remain all creature types, even though it will no longer have changeling. This is because changeling applies before the effect that removes it.
• 2021-02-05You must choose an existing creature type, such as Vampire or Druid. You can't choose card types (e.g., artifact) or supertypes (e.g., snow).

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