When in any zone other than the battlefield (and after having been transformed), double-faced cards have only the characteristics of their front face (‘Day’ side). While there is not a penalty associated with accidentally putting a double-faced card into another zone with the wrong face showing, doing so has the potential to create mistakes.<\/p>\n
For example, the Dark Ascension card Ghoultree<\/a> cares about the number of creature cards you have in your graveyard, because the cost to cast it is lowered for each one of them. There is a double-faced card that is a creature on the front but an enchantment on the back (Soul Seizer<\/a>\/Ghastly Haunting<\/a>), and one other card this an equipment on the front but a creature on the back (Elbrus, the Binding Blade<\/a>\/Withengar Unbound<\/a>). When one of these cards goes to the graveyard, it is put there face-up. It does not matter if it leaves play with the back side facing up. When going through your graveyard, it is best to keep these double-faced cards face up. It is easy to miss the Ghastly Haunting as a creature card if its back face is showing in the graveyard, just at it would be easy to accidentally count Withengard Unbound as a creature card instead of an equipment card in your graveyard if its back face is showing.<\/p>\n This can also apply to effects that count the creature subtypes of cards, as most double-faced cards have different creature subtypes on their two sides (e.g., most Werewolf creatures are Human on one side, but not the other).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When in any zone other than the battlefield (and after having been transformed), double-faced cards have only the characteristics of their front face (‘Day’ side). While there is not a penalty associated with accidentally putting a double-faced card into another zone with the wrong face showing, doing so has the potential to create mistakes. For […]<\/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":[122],"tags":[640,626,624,625,639],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zones","tag-elbrus","tag-ghastly-haunting","tag-ghoultree","tag-soul-seizer","tag-withengar-unbound","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}