Substitute card

Magic Origins Checklist card

Substitute cards (formerly known as checklist cards) are used by double-faced cards and meld cards to provide the standard missing card back these cards are naturally lacking.

Description

Substitute cards have a list of all double-faced cards (common-uncommon/rare-mythic in Shadows over Innistrad) in the respective set on one side and the typical Magic card back on the other side.

In Ixalan and Rivals of Ixalan boosters, double-faced cards (almost) always appear with a checklist card.

A checklist card may be be substituted for a helper card, which were released from Zendikar Rising onwards.

Card rulings

• It's important that the cards in your deck be indistinguishable from one another. To accomplish this with double-faced cards, you can use either sleeves, or the checklist cards that are included in some booster packs of sets featured double faced cards.
• You must have a actual copy of double-faced card that the checklist card is representing with you for each checklist card used. For example, if you use four checklist cards to represent Jace, Vryn's Prodigy , you must have four actual copies of Jace, Vryn's Prodigy too.
• The double-faced card should be kept apart from the rest of your deck. In tournaments, the double-faced card should also be kept separate from your sideboard.
• A checklist card can't be included in a deck except when it's being used to represent a double-faced card. If you opt to use checklist card to represent a certain double-faced card, all copies of that double-faced card in the deck must use checklist card instead of actual copy too. (You may use checklist card to represent a double-faced card, but not using them for another double-faced card that has a different name)
• You must mark exactly one fill-in circle on the checklist card to indicate which double-faced card it represents.
• You can still use card sleeves, even if you also choose to use checklist cards.
• During the game, a checklist card is considered to be the double-faced card it represents. For example, say you have a checklist card in your hand representing Tormented Pariah and an opponent casts Despise. The checklist card is a creature card, so your opponent may choose the checklist card and you would discard it.
• As soon as a checklist card enters a public zone (stack, battlefield, graveyard, or exile unless it's exiled face down/manifested), use the double-faced card and set the checklist card aside. If the double-faced card is put into a hidden zone (hand or library), use the checklist card again.
• If a double-faced card is exiled face down or being manifested, keep its identity hidden by using the face-down checklist card.

See also

• Helper card

Gallery

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  Innistrad

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  Dark Ascension

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  Shadows over Innistrad (uncommons and commons)

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  Shadows over Innistrad (mythics and rares)

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  Eldritch Moon

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  Ixalan

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  Rivals of Ixalan

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  Core Set 2019