Escaped Shapeshifter's Oracle text

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Escaped Shapeshifter's Oracle text reads as follows:

> As long as an opponent controls a creature with
> flying other than an Escaped Shapeshifter, Escaped
> Shapeshifter has flying. The same is true for first
> strike, trample, and protection from any color.

Shouldn't that say "not named Escaped Shapeshifter" rather than "other
than an Escaped Shapeshifter"? Such text normally refers to subtypes,
not names, and there is no such creature type as "Escaped".

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Jeff Heikkinen <no....@jose.org> wrote:

:Escaped Shapeshifter's Oracle text reads as follows:

:> As long as an opponent controls a creature with
:> flying other than an Escaped Shapeshifter, Escaped
:> Shapeshifter has flying. The same is true for first
:> strike, trample, and protection from any color.

:Shouldn't that say "not named Escaped Shapeshifter" rather than "other
:than an Escaped Shapeshifter"? Such text normally refers to subtypes,
:not names, and there is no such creature type as "Escaped".

Yes, it should. Note that this sort of error is very difficult to search
Oracle comprehensively for, however... Passing this on up.

Dave
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