Can you use Deceiver of Form to flip non-morph creature's?
Asked by Yesterday 2 years ago
Following up on a question from a few days ago, what happens if you control a face-down creature that doesn't have morph or a variant, and your Deceiver of Form's trigger goes off? I reveal a Scornful Egotist off Deceiver's trigger.
According to the answer in the other thread, if I control an Akroma, Angel of Fury I've cast as a morph creature, I can flip it face-up for U at which point it'll be a face-up Scornful Egotist until end of turn.
If I control a Yargle, Glutton of Urborg that was turned face-down with an Ixidron, can I spend U to turn the Yargle face-up?
And if so... what happens if I've used a Magar of the Magic Strings to reanimate a sorcery spell as a face-down creature? Can I pay U to turn it face-up as a copy of the Egotist until end of turn? Or do the rules that prevent instants and sorceries entering the battlefield prevent you from turning the card face-up even when it's a copy of a creature card?
Yargle can be flipped for because morphs look ahead at what they will be (Egotist in this case) and use that to determine morph costs.
Magar creatures work according to this rule:
"There are no cards in this set that would turn a face-down instant or sorcery card on the battlefield face up, but some older cards can try to do this. If something tries to turn a face-down instant or sorcery card on the battlefield face up, reveal that card to show all players it’s an instant or sorcery card. The permanent remains on the battlefield face down. Abilities that trigger when a permanent turns face up won’t trigger, because even though you revealed the card, it never turned face up. (2022-10-07)"
Scryfall page ruling came from
You can pay the cost, but it will not flip.
April 18, 2023 7:05 p.m.
Right. That makes sense as a constant rule. For some reason I thought that wouldn't apply after it became a copy of something else.
Yesterday says... #1
I know this probably doesn't matter to anybody else but I need to put it on the record that my phone's autocorrect put that apostrophe in the question title.
April 18, 2023 4:51 p.m.