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[magicjudge]

What's your intuition on bouncing a melded creature? Bounced apart, or still horribly stitched together?

The mechanics article states that the cards go together to their owner’s hand. Both cards are back to their front faces, though.

[magicjudge]

There's one other thing I wanted to mention about color identity. Basic lands have no color but do have the color identity of the mana symbol they have, obviously. Shock lands however have basic land types but no actual mana symbols except for what is in the reminder text which, as you mentioned before with blind obedience, has no effect on color identity. Therefore, I'm pretty sure there is a special ruling that explicitly gives them the color identities they should have.

Lands with basic land types have the mana abilities associated with those basic land types, so all forests have “T: Add G to your mana pool” and Volcanic Island has “T: Add U to your mana pool” and “T: Add R to your mana pool.”The ability is added by the type, and the mana symbol of that ability counts towards color identity.

The reason that the abilities are put in italics and parentheses on the nonbasic lands with land types is that actually putting an ability in the text box would be redundant. So they put the reminder of what mana it can inherently produce from its land type to make it clear to less experienced players.