Counts as

"Counts as" was a phrase printed on old Legendary cards that gave them creature types. It appeared only on cards in Tempest block, the last block to use the "Summon [type]" formatting. Previous sets disregarded creature types for Legends altogether, before being assigned types during the Great Creature Type Update. Later sets used the "Creature - Legend [type]" format before Champions of Kamigawa made it a supertype. 
Modern design avoids using this by limiting the amount of types a creature can be to what fits on the type line, but two successors to this phrase exist: the Changeling mechanic as a whole, and the Party-centric vertical cycle of , , and alongside the later-printed . Each of them carry the phrase "is also a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior and Wizard", allowing them to be Party wild cards.
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