Flipping cards over is not a new thing in Magic–the morph mechanic has been around since the Onslaught block. However, turning a card face-down is very different from transforming a double-faced card. These two effects are very different and do not interact at all (in fact, it’s impossible to ever turn a double-faced card face-down).<\/p>\n
Transform means to turn a double-faced card over to reveal the other side. This isn’t a zone change–it simply changes that permanent’s characteristics (usually means a new name, types, abilities, P\/T, and mana cost\/lack thereof). No matter which face is showing, the card is always “face-up.”<\/p>\n
Morph is a keyword mechanic that allows you to cast a card face-down as a 2\/2 creature. Additionally, there are a few effects that allow you to look at a face-down creature, turn a face-down creature face-up, or turn a face-up creature face-down.<\/p>\n
For example, Ixidor, Reality Sculptor<\/a> will not give +1\/+1 to a Gatstaf Howler<\/a>, nor can it turn it over so it becomes Gatstaf Shepherd<\/a>.<\/p>\n Somewhat similarly, Ixidron<\/a> cannot turn a double-faced card over at all. This is somewhat like the fact that Moonmist<\/a> won’t do anything to a human that is not double-faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flipping cards over is not a new thing in Magic–the morph mechanic has been around since the Onslaught block. However, turning a card face-down is very different from transforming a double-faced card. These two effects are very different and do not interact at all (in fact, it’s impossible to ever turn a double-faced card face-down). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[512,511,546,547,510],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-uncategorized","tag-gatstaf-howler","tag-gatstaf-shepherd","tag-ixidor-reality-sculptor","tag-ixidron","tag-moonmist","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}