Escaped Shapeshifter
Creature — Shapeshifter
As long as an opponent controls a creature with flying not named Escaped Shapeshifter, this creature has flying. The same is true for first strike, trample, and protection from any color.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $1.11
- EDHREC rank
- #28827
Escaped Shapeshifter copies the creature type of whatever has the highest power on the board — for four mana, that's a meaningful threat that scales with the game state rather than sitting fixed. The payoff is real in tribal decks, but the dependency on opponent board presence makes it unreliable in Commander pods where the biggest creature changes every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Escaped Shapeshifter has its best case: tribal decks that want to squeeze in an extra lord or synergy piece without committing to a specific creature type can find real value here, especially in Changeling-adjacent strategies. Outside of that niche, the card's fragility — it loses its copied type the moment the power landscape shifts — limits how much work it can do in a 100-card singleton format. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; no competitive deck in either format wants a four-mana creature whose text box reads this conditionally. Escaped Shapeshifter is a Commander-only conversation.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$1.11 cheap tier
At $1.11, Escaped Shapeshifter sits firmly in budget territory — low enough that it's a no-risk pickup for any tribal build that wants to test it. It's a niche card with a narrow audience, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.