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Mana cost
{4}
Power / toughness
*/*
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Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Primal Clay
Primal Clay (395) is an Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter from Fifth Edition (5ED). It costs {4}, has mana value 4 and is a */*. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 2 more formats.
Fifth Edition is a core set, released March 1997. Primal Clay has 6 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
As this creature enters, it becomes your choice of a 3/3 artifact creature, a 2/2 artifact creature with flying, or a 1/6 Wall artifact creature with defender in addition to its other types. (A creature with defender can't attack.)
Card details
- Card number
- 395
- Set
- Fifth Edition (5ED)
- Set type
- Core set
- Released
- 24 March 1997
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Power / toughness
- */*
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Primal Clay
Primal Clay in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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