Shape change-driven FCCBCC reconfiguration is accompanied by a first-order thermodynamic phase transition in spheric triangle invariant hard polyhedra. (A) Shapes used in umbrella sampling calculation. (B) Second neighbor-averaged spherical harmonic order parameter distinguishes BCC, FCC, and HCP crystal phases in thermal systems of spheric triangle invariant polyhedra. (C) Below the transition (), a metastable FCC free energy basin develops below . (D) Above the transition (), the FCC free energy basin becomes dominant above (). Well above the transition (), the BCC free energy basin becomes unstable, but there is a second metastable HCP basin.