How does color identity work on 3 color split cards?
Asked by shadow63 1 year ago
I'm making a Niv-Mizzet Reborn deck at some point in the future and I need to know how cards like Flesh / Blood work with niv's ability. Can I just grab one half of it and count it as my card for those colors or is it considered to be all 3 colors
Rhadamanthus says... #3
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Delphen7 says... Accepted answer #1
No, because Niv Mizzet sees Flesh / Blood as having one mana cost:
709.1: "Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The back of a split card is the normal Magic card back."
709.4b: "The mana cost of a split card is the combined mana costs of its two halves. A split card’s colors and mana value are determined from its combined mana cost. An effect that refers specifically to the symbols in a split card’s mana cost sees the separate symbols rather than the whole mana cost."
March 15, 2023 5:40 p.m.