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Changeling Hero

Creature — Shapeshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Champion a creature (When this enters, sacrifice it unless you exile another creature you control. When this leaves the battlefield, that card returns to the battlefield.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$0.24
EDHREC rank
#16456
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Changeling Hero card art
Changeling Hero enters, gives all your creatures a +1/+1 counter, and then Champion-exits the battlefield to return later — a repeatable loop engine the moment you pair it with Molten Echoes or any token doubler. The cost is a four-mana 4/4 with no immediate board protection, so it lives or dies by the shell you build around it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Changeling Hero actually does something: tribal decks running Humans, Elves, Merfolk, or literally any creature type can exploit the Champion mechanic as a blink-without-blinking loop, and the universal subtype makes it slot cleanly into any of them. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant — the format speed and power ceiling make a four-mana Champion creature unplayable outside of niche casual tables. Modern has the same problem: four mana for this effect doesn't compete. Changeling Hero is a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.24 bulk tier

At $0.24, Changeling Hero is deep bulk — easy to acquire as a throw-in or cheap pickup. The price reflects low casual demand outside its combo niches, and there's no pressure to buy in a hurry.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.