DOUBLE-FACED CARDS RULES CHANGES
ā1. Converted mana cost
Remember when I said that the characteristics of the face thatās up are all that matter? That wasnāt quite accurate. Under the new rules, the converted mana cost of the back face of a DFC is based on the mana cost of the front face. (Previously, because the back faces lacked mana costs, their converted mana costs were all 0.) The one exception is if something is a copy of the back face of a DFC, its converted mana cost is 0. So If I control Insidious Mist, it has no mana cost, but its converted mana cost is 4. If I then put a copy of Insidious Mist onto the battlefield, that copyās converted mana cost is 0.
2. Entering the battlefield transformed
A few effects can put a card onto the battlefield transformed. This means to put it on the battlefield with its back face up. Starting with this set, we have a new rule that if youāre told to put a card that isnāt a DFC onto the battlefield transformed, it just stays where it is. This may affect a few cards in this set, but I think the Magic Originsplaneswalkers illustrate the change nicely. (This is code for āThe cool cards in this set I could use to illustrate this havenāt been previewed yet.ā I know. I feel the same way.) Say you control a Clone thatās copying Jace, Vrynās Prodigy, and you activate faux-Jaceās ability with four thousand cards in your graveyard. Well, four thousand is āfive or more,ā so faux-Jace dutifully exiles himself. Then he tries to return transformed, but in exile heās just a single-faced Clone. Heās not a DFC, so he gets detained at the border and remains in exile. I hope the card you drew was good, because this wasnāt a great play otherwise.
Iāve saved our most technical change for last. Hereās the new rule: if a DFC has an activated or triggered ability that transforms it, that permanent transforms only if it hasnāt since that ability was put on the stack. What does that mean? For example, say you activate Elusive Tormentorās ability, then you activate it again in response. Why? Because you want to discard a lot of cards. Why? Weāre almost there. Relax. The first ability to resolve will cause Elusive Tormentor to transform, as expected. But the second ability wonāt, as Elusive Tormentor has already transformed because of the first ability.ā
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