Suspicious Stowaway color identity
Asked by bonettig 3 years ago
Hi everyone, since I'm a commander player I'd like to understand how the color identity rule works with daybound/nightbound creatures. Example: Suspicious Stowaway Flip counts as a blue card or as a simic card? Thanks!
It's a simic card. Colour identity takes into account the qualities of the front and back of the card; the colour of the card (including where the card has a colour indicator defining the card's colour instead of a casting cost, like with Seafaring Werewolf or Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh), the colour of mana symbols in its casting costs, and the colour of mana symbols in its text box (outside of reminder text).
Polaris says... #1
Suspicious Stowaway Flip is a mono blue card for all effects that care about the colors of cards (until it transforms). However, Commander uses a different rule called color identity for deck building. Color only looks at the mana cost, the color indicator (for zero mana cards like Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar), or "this card is [color] abilities on the card itself, and it only checks the front side.
Color identity checks all of that plus any mana symbols in the card's text, and looks at both sides of the card, so when building a commander deck, Stowaway can only go on a deck with both blue and green.
September 18, 2021 10:17 a.m.