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Polymorph

Polymorph Price

6 printings · 5 sets · first printed 1996

Cheapest $1.42
Median $2.01
Highest $34.85
EDHREC Rank #8,250

Polymorph has been printed 6 times across 5 sets, first in 1996 and most recently in 2021. Right now the cheapest printing is Ninth Edition #90 at $1.42, while the most expensive is Ninth Edition #90★ at $34.85 — about 25× more. The median across 6 priced printings is $2.01. Reprint risk: ELEVATED — Reprinted 6x total; appeared once in a dedicated reprint set (The List).

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Every Polymorph Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Ninth Edition #90 (R) Cheapest 2005 $1.42 $1.50
Classic Sixth Edition #86 (R) 1999 $1.47 $1.50
The List #M10-67 (R) 2021 $2.00 $1.00
Magic 2010 #67 (R) 2009 $2.03 $1.50
Mirage #82 (R) 1996 $2.22 $3.20
Ninth Edition #90★ (R) Foil 2005 $34.85 —

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Sorcery
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library.
Legal In
Modern Legacy Vintage Commander Penny Dreadful PreDH

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 6 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

5 Precedents

If there are no creatures in the player’s library, then the target creature is still destroyed, you see all the cards in that player’s library, and then they shuffle and continue play.

A “creature card” is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.

If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Polymorph would resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. Nothing else happens.

If there are no creature cards in the player’s library, all the cards in that library are revealed, then the library is shuffled. (The targeted creature remains destroyed.)

If the targeted creature has indestructible, it’s still a legal target — it just isn’t destroyed. The rest of Polymorph’s effect happens as normal.