Impostor of the Sixth Pride
Creature — Shapeshifter
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #9500
Impostor of the Sixth Pride is a 3/1 changeling for one white mana with no drawback — the stat line alone justifies its inclusion in any tribe that wants cheap bodies. The changeling type makes it count as every creature type simultaneously, which is the entire reason it exists.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Impostor of the Sixth Pride earns its slot in any tribal deck that cares about creature types — Slivers, Goblins, Elves, Humans, Merfolk — because it satisfies every lord and synergy piece at once for a single white mana. Pauper is where it sees the most competitive play, fitting into white-based aggressive and tribal strategies that want maximum density of cheap, efficient creatures. In Legacy and Vintage it's a legal curiosity rather than a staple, outclassed by format-specific threats, but tribal synergy shells can still find use for it. Modern tribal decks occasionally run Impostor of the Sixth Pride as a redundancy piece when they need more copies of a given creature type than the card pool naturally provides.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Impostor of the Sixth Pride is a bulk common, typically available for well under a dollar, and easy to find in any large collection or common bin. At that price point there's no reason not to pick up a copy if you're building any tribal Commander deck with white in its color identity.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.