612. Spells, Abilities and Effets : Text-Changing Effects
612.1.
Some continuous effects change an object‘s text. This can apply to any words or symbols printed
on that object, but generally affects only that object‘s rules text (which appears in its text box)
and/or the text that appears in its type line. Such an effect is a text-changing effect.
612.2.
A text-changing effect changes only those words that are used in the correct way (for example, a
Magic color word being used as a color word, a land type word used as a land type, or a creature
type word used as a creature type). An effect that changes a color word or a subtype can‘t change a
card name, even if that name contains a word or a series of letters that is the same as a Magic color
word, basic land type, or creature type.
612.2a
Most spells and abilities that create creature tokens use creature types to define both the
creature types and the names of the tokens. A text-changing effect that affects such a spell or an
object with such an ability can change these words because they‘re being used as creature types,
even though they‘re also being used as names.
612.3.
Effects that add or remove abilities don‘t change the text of the objects they affect, so any
abilities that are granted to an object can‘t be modified by text-changing effects that affect that
object.
612.4.
A token‘s subtypes and rules text are defined by the spell or ability that created the token. A textchanging
effect that affects a token can change these characteristics.
612.5.
One card (Volrath‘s Shapeshifter) states that an object has the «full text» of another object. This
changes not just the text that appears in the object‘s text box and type line, but also changes the text
that represents its name, mana cost, color indicator, expansion symbol, power, and toughness.