Quickchange

Instant

Target creature becomes the color or colors of your choice until end of turn.
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CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Ravnica: City of Guilds
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#22198
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Quickchange card art
Quickchange swaps a creature's color and type for a single blue mana at instant speed — relevant enough to dodge a removal spell, enable a creature-type synergy, or blank a protection ability mid-combat. Seedcradle Witch is the headliner pairing, turning Quickchange into a free-value engine whenever you need a creature to change suits. Cheap, narrow, and powerful in the right shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Quickchange earns its slot in tribal decks that can exploit creature-type switching — changeling synergies, lords, or sacrifice engines that care about a specific type — and in blue decks that want cheap instant-speed protection against targeted removal. In Pauper it's a fringe combat trick with real applications in tempo shells. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; those formats play at a speed where a one-mana cantrip-level effect needs to do more work than Quickchange offers. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: if your planeswalker's signature spell can loop Quickchange meaningfully, it overperforms; otherwise it stays on the bench.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Quickchange is pure bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if the effect fits your deck. Bulk common prices like this are stable by definition; there's no meaningful upside or downside to worry about.

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