Riptide Shapeshifter and no creature type?

[Dave]

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Hi all,

A friend wanted me to ask this...

Can he use Riptide Shapeshifter's ability and choose "no type"
so that he can reveal cards and put a creature with no type
(e.g. Darksteel Colossus) into play?

I told him I didn't think so, for a similar reason that a Birds
of Paradise can't tap for "colorless" mana, but he wanted me
to check anyway.

Riptide Shapeshifter
{3}{U}{U}
Creature -- Shapeshifter
3/3
{2}{U}{U}, Sacrifice Riptide Shapeshifter: Choose a creature type.
Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a
creature card of that type. Put that card into play and shuffle
the rest into your library.

Darksteel Colossus
{11}
Artifact Creature
11/11
Trample
Darksteel Colossus is indestructible. ("Destroy" effects and lethal
damage don't destroy it.)
If Darksteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere,
reveal Darksteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library
instead.

Thanks!

- Dave

 

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On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:19:05 -0500, Dave <im@not.telling> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A friend wanted me to ask this...
>
>Can he use Riptide Shapeshifter's ability and choose "no type"

No. "No type" is not a creature type.

>so that he can reveal cards and put a creature with no type
>(e.g. Darksteel Colossus) into play?

Nope.

>I told him I didn't think so, for a similar reason that a Birds
>of Paradise can't tap for "colorless" mana, but he wanted me
>to check anyway.

You're correct; you have to choose a creature type on resolution. It
doesn't have to be one that's legal for Type II, or one that's on a card
in your deck - but it does have to be an existing creature type. RS can't
pop out a creature card that has no creature type.

>Riptide Shapeshifter >{3}{U}{U} >Creature -- Shapeshifter
>3/3 >{2}{U}{U}, Sacrifice Riptide Shapeshifter: Choose a creature type.
>Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a
>creature card of that type. Put that card into play and shuffle
>the rest into your library.

What he wants to do is use Conspiracy, so that all the creature cards in
his deck DO have a creature type...

Dave
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[Dave]

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"David DeLaney" <dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote in message
news:slrnca7jr1.jb1.dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com...
> On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:19:05 -0500, Dave <im@not.telling> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >A friend wanted me to ask this...
> >
> >Can he use Riptide Shapeshifter's ability and choose "no type"
>
> No. "No type" is not a creature type.
>
> >so that he can reveal cards and put a creature with no type
> >(e.g. Darksteel Colossus) into play?
>
> Nope.
>
> >I told him I didn't think so, for a similar reason that a Birds
> >of Paradise can't tap for "colorless" mana, but he wanted me
> >to check anyway.
>
> You're correct; you have to choose a creature type on resolution. It
> doesn't have to be one that's legal for Type II, or one that's on a card
> in your deck - but it does have to be an existing creature type. RS can't
> pop out a creature card that has no creature type.
>
> >Riptide Shapeshifter >{3}{U}{U} >Creature -- Shapeshifter
> >3/3 >{2}{U}{U}, Sacrifice Riptide Shapeshifter: Choose a creature type.
> >Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a
> >creature card of that type. Put that card into play and shuffle
> >the rest into your library.
>
> What he wants to do is use Conspiracy, so that all the creature cards in
> his deck DO have a creature type...

Thanks a bunch Dave...that's what I figured.

Heh...didn't know about the card "Conspiracy"...that's a neat one.
I've got a few uses for that one myself; I'll have to pick up a few
copies of that! Thanks again!

- Dave