Identity Thief

Creature — Shapeshifter

Whenever this attacks, you may exile another target nontoken creature. If you do, this becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn. Return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

Unknowncrash on Pursuing Perfection, Part 6: Azorius …

3 years ago

What about Medomai the Ageless? Pair him with Identity Thief and you win the game.

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator + Keleth, Sunmane Familiar is a pretty cool deck to build around too. You get treasures while swinging in the air for commander dmg.

Rhadamanthus on Identity thief Obeka combo?

3 years ago

You can get the result you want. The card will stay in exile and Identity Thief will be ready to do the trick again.

The End Phase of the turn has two steps: the end step and the cleanup step. Using an "end the turn" effect skips straight to the cleanup step of the current turn, and that's when "until end of turn" effects wear off. In your example:

• Wait until the end step begins. The delayed trigger from Identity Thief ("Return the exiled card...at the beginning of the next end step") is put onto the stack
• Respond by activating Obeka, Brute Chronologist . As that ability resolves, the delayed trigger from Identity Thief gets exiled without resolving (meaning the card stays in exile) and the game moves to the cleanup step
• The "until end of turn" part of Identity Thief's ability ends and it goes back to being itself with all its written abilities

brotherkoda on Identity thief Obeka combo?

3 years ago

Ok so I am trying to do a thing with Obeka, Brute Chronologist and Identity Thief it’s my understanding that I can on attack exile and copy with thief then end turn with obeka... my question is the following turn is identity thief no longer able to do this. meaning identity thief is permanently the new card, and can no longer exile and clone new things due to him still being a clone? Or does he retain all previous abilities. Meaning he can become a beast of a card exiling and copying things over and over

Thanks in advance

griffstick on Rashmi

3 years ago

Acidic Slime for Reclamation Sage

Identity Thief for Stunt Double

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy for Momir Vig, Simic Visionary

Mercurial Pretender for Wall of Stolen Identity

Progenitor Mimic for Phyrexian Metamorph

Vesuvan Shapeshifter for Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip

king-saproling on kokomo (Muldrotha/Gyruda EDH)

3 years ago

Thoughts on these? Phyrexian Metamorph , Altered Ego , Progenitor Mimic , Faceless Butcher , Nightmare Shepherd , Identity Thief , Deadeye Navigator , Path of Discovery , Pitiless Plunderer , Torrential Gearhulk , Illusionist's Stratagem

Rhadamanthus on Can Cackling Counterpart (or similar) …

3 years ago

Yes, that will work.

If an effect isn't allowed to target or otherwise work with a certain kind of object, it will make that clear somewhere in the text. For example: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker can't target legendary creatures, and Identity Thief can't target token creatures. The examples you name can be used to copy any creature, even token ones.

iammute on Ilharg - Medomai combo

3 years ago

Not sure if you're still running this deck but Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is a great upgrade over Ludevic imo.

Identity Thief is another way to combo with Medomai but you need something like Brago, King Eternal or Thassa, Deep-Dwelling to flicker the thief before end of turn or you'll lose one of the Medomais. Brago and Thassa have great synergy with Ilharg too allowing you to keep something he cheated in permanently if you like.

Brago also creates an infinite combat loop with Aurelia, the Warleader who I would put in any RW combat centric deck anyway. Helm of the Host is another infinite with Aurelia and Blade of Selves on Medomai with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces in play is very powerful.

iammute on The Flying Turn Generator

3 years ago

Not sure if you're still running this deck but Sakashima of a Thousand Faces is a great upgrade over Ishai imo.

Identity Thief is another way to combo with Medomai but you need something like Brago, King Eternal or Thassa, Deep-Dwelling to flicker the thief before end of turn or you'll lose one of the Medomais. Brago and Thassa have great synergy with Ilharg too allowing you to keep something he cheated in to play permanently if you like.

Brago also creates an infinite combat loop with Aurelia, the Warleader who I would put in any RW combat centric deck anyway. Helm of the Host is another infinite with Aurelia but even if it 'only' makes extra Medomais that's still great. Blade of Selves on Medomai with Sakashima of a Thousand Faces in play is very powerful too.