How does Illusionary mask work mtg?
The Mask lets you pay X, then you choose a creature card in your hand that could have been cast with what you paid for X and cast it face down. Once it resolves and that creature would deal or receive damage or become tapped, you turn it face up.
What is the CMC of a face down card?
While the card is face-down, it is a 2/2 creature with no name, color, creature type, abilities, mana cost, etc. The converted mana cost of a face-down creature is 0 since it has no mana cost.
Are facedown creatures colorless?
A face-down permanent is, by default, a 2/2 creature with no rules text, no name, no subtypes, no expansion symbol, and no mana cost or color indicator (consequently, it is also colorless).
Are face down creatures tokens?
No. Both the morph and manifest abilities that allow you to have a face-down permanent apply only to cards (morph works on creature cards in your hand, and manifest on cards from your library).
Can creatures turned face down with Ixidron be turned face up?
You can turn them face up, if you have a means to turn them face up. Ixidron itself doesn’t provide such means, but morph and megamorph do. Ixidor, Reality Sculptor can turn them face up as well. If a nonmorph card is turned face down by Ixidron, there is no inherent way to turn it face up again.
Are morph cards colorless spells?
It’s colorless and has 0 mana value. Other effects that apply to the creature can still grant it any of these characteristics. Any time you have priority, you may turn the face-down creature face up by revealing what its morph cost is and paying that cost. This is a special action.
Does morph count as a spell?
And since a face-down card has no mana cost, it by default is colorless. This doesn’t clearly state whether or not the morph cost itself counts as a colorless or colored spell though. It doesn’t use the stack. Therefore, it isn’t a spell.
Does morph count as an ability?
502.26a Morph is a static ability that functions any time you could play the card it’s on, and the morph effect works until you turn the card face up.
Does Ixidron remove abilities?
Yes, they keep them. They are still the same object. No, the Ixidron effect is applied AS it is coming into play, and since graft is a triggered ability from when it comes into play, the frogling will not be there to give it to Ixidron.
Can you look at face down exiled cards?
Cards “exiled face down” can’t be examined by any player except when instructions allow it. However, once a player is allowed to look at a card exiled face down, that player may continue to look at that card as long as it remains exiled, even if the instruction allowing the player to do so no longer applies.
Do morphs have a name?
They don’t have names: 702.35a Morph is a static ability that functions in any zone from which you could play the card it’s on, and the morph effect works any time the card is face down.
Are morphed creatures colorless?
It’s colorless and has 0 mana value. Other effects that apply to the creature can still grant it any of these characteristics. Any time you have priority, you may turn the face-down creature face up by revealing what its morph cost is and paying that cost.