There are many ways for the characteristics of a permanent in play to have its characteristics changed. Double-faced cards are just a new way of changing more than one of these characteristics at one time, and in a somewhat dramatic way. While on the battlefield, these cards have the chance to turn over completely and change all of their base characteristics.<\/p>\n
However, these changes only apply while in play. In any other zone–library, graveyard, hand or exile–these cards are treated as only having the characteristics of their face-up (“day”) side. Effects that look at, use or try to match the characteristics of a card will only ‘see’ the face-up versions of these cards.<\/p>\n
For example: while in play, Gatstaf Howler<\/a> has a converted mana cost of zero. This is because the back side of a double-faced card has no mana cost, and therefore its converted mana cost is zero. However, when in the graveyard, its characteristics are those of its face-up side. It does not matter that it left play as a Gatstaf Howler; in the graveyard, the only characteristics that matter are those of the Gatstaf Shepherd<\/a> side. Because of this, if you were to target this card with Postmortem Lunge<\/a>, you would need to pay 2B or 2 mana and 2 life in order to return it to the battlefield. Also, it will be returned to play as a Gatstaf Shepherd, not a Gatstaf Howler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many ways for the characteristics of a permanent in play to have its characteristics changed. Double-faced cards are just a new way of changing more than one of these characteristics at one time, and in a somewhat dramatic way. While on the battlefield, these cards have the chance to turn over completely and […]<\/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":[38],"tags":[512,511],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","tag-gatstaf-howler","tag-gatstaf-shepherd","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}