Double-faced card/List of sets

Double-faced card

 

List of sets

 

The following is a list of sets with double-faced cards. Only the paper sets are list here.

Overview

Release	Set	Type	Mechanic	Theme	# new cards	# reprints	Helper cards
2011-09	Innistrad	TDFCs	Transform	Creatures to monsters Planeswalker to monster	20		Checklist card (1)
2012-02	Dark Ascension	TDFCs	Transform Return from exile transformed	Creatures to monsters Artifact to monster Artifact to artifact	13		Checklist card (1)
2015-07	Magic Origins	TDFCs	Return from exile transformed	Legendary creatures to planeswalkers	5		Checklist card (1)
2016-04	Shadows over Innistrad	TDFCs	Transform Return from exile transformed	Creatures to monsters Creature to artifact Artifact to artifact Land to creature planeswalker to monster	33		Checklist cards (2)
2016-07	Eldritch Moon	TDFCs	Transform	Creature to monster Creatures to Eldrazi Artifact to Eldrazi	15		Checklist card (1)
2016-07	Eldritch Moon	Meld cards	Meld	Creatures to Eldrazi Land to Eldrazi	6
2017-09	Hascon 2017 promos	TDFC	Convert a toy	Autobot to Dinosaur	1
2017-09	Ixalan	TDFCs	Transform Return from exile transformed	Artifacts to lands Enchantments to lands	10		Checklist card (1)
2018-01	Rivals of Ixalan	TDFCs	Transform Return from exile transformed	Artifacts to lands Multicolored enchantments to lands	7		Checklist card (1)
2018-07	Core Set 2019	TDFC	Return from exile transformed	Legendary creature to planeswalker	1		Checklist card (1)
2019-10	Ponies: The Galloping	TDFC	Transform	Alicorn to Alicorn	1
2020-09	Zendikar Rising	MDFCs		Spells, creatures, lands // lands	36		Substitute cards (9)
2021-02	Kaldheim	MDFCs		Gods // associated	17		Substitute cards (9)
2021-04	Strixhaven: School of Mages	MDFCs		Enemy colors	17		Substitute cards (9)
2021-09	Innistrad: Midnight Hunt	TDFCs	Transform Daybound and Nightbound Disturb Return from exile transformed	Creatures to Spirits	49		Substitute cards (9)
2021-10	Secret Lair: Stranger Things (bonus card)	TDFC	Transform	Land to land	1
2021-11	Innistrad: Crimson Vow	TDFCs	Transform Daybound and Nightbound Disturb Return from exile transformed	Spirits to Auras	49		Substitute cards (9)
2022-01	Commander Collection: Black	TDFC	Transform	Legendary creature to planneswalker		1
2022-01	Innistrad: Double Feature	TDFCs	Transform Daybound and Nightbound Disturb	Creatures to Spirits / Spirits to Auras		98
2022-02	Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty	TDFCs	Return from exile transformed	Sagas to creatures	23		Substitute cards (9)
2022-06	Secret Lair: Artist Series: Chris Rahn	TDFC	Transform	Human to monster		1
2022-05	Universes Within (Streets of New Capenna)	TDFC	Transform	Land to land		1
2022-11	The Brothers' War	Meld cards	Meld	Brother to Phyrexian Brother to planeswalker Land to legendary creature	6
2022-11	Transformers	TDFCs	Convert More Than Meets the Eye	Robots to vehicles	15		Substitute card (1)
2023-03	Secret Lair: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves	TDFC	Transform	Creature to monster	1
2023-04	March of the Machine	MDFCs	Transform Cast from exile transformed	Creature to Phyrexian Praetor to Saga Battle to other	61		Substitute card (1)
2023-05	Secret Lair: From Cute to Brute	TDFC MDFC	Various	Various		5
2023-05	Secret Lair: From Cute to Brute (bonus card)	TDFC	Transform	Human to monster		1
2023-11	The Lost Caverns of Ixalan	TDFCs	Transform Craft Return from exile transformed	Artifact to artifact Enchantment to land	35		Substitute card (1)
2023-11	Jurassic World Collection	TDFC	Return from exile transformed	Enchantment to land	1
2023-11	Lost Caverns Commander	TDFCs	Transform Craft	Artifact to artifact Artifact to creature	5
2023-11	Secret Lair: Tomb Raider	TDFC	Transform	Enchantment to land		1
2024-06	Modern Horizons 3	MDFCs TDFCs	Various	Creature to planeswalker Land and spell	25		Substitute card (1)
2024-06	Secret Lair: Featuring: NOT A WOLF	TDFCs	Daybound and Nightbound	Creature to monster		2
2025-01	Innistrad Remastered	Meld cards	Meld	Creatures to Eldrazi Land to Eldrazi		6
2025-01	Innistrad Remastered	TDFCs	Transform Daybound and Nightbound Disturb Return from exile transformed	Various		41	Substitute card (1)
2025-06	Final Fantasy	TDFCs	Transform	Various	27
2025-06	Final Fantasy	Meld cards	Meld	Creature to creature	1

Detailed Descriptions

Transforming DFCs

Innistrad

In Innistrad sets, many are werewolves, fledgling vampires, or other creatures undergoing horrifying transformations. The majority of these cards are creatures that transform into other creatures, although there are a significant number of exceptions:

Rares & Mythics

Front Face	Card Type(s)	Back Face	Card Type(s)	Set
Arlinn Kord	Planeswalker	Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon	Planeswalker
Arlinn, the Pack's Hope	Planeswalker	Arlinn, the Moon's Fury	Planeswalker
Elbrus, the Binding Blade	Artifact	Withengar Unbound	Creature
Garruk Relentless	Planeswalker	Garruk, the Veil-Cursed	Planeswalker
Hostile Hostel	Land	Creeping Inn	Artifact Creature
Jacob Hauken, Inspector	Creature	Hauken's Insight	Enchantment
Poppet Stitcher	Creature	Poppet Factory	Artifact
Startled Awake	Sorcery	Persistent Nightmare	Creature
Curse of Leeches	Enchantment (Aura Curse)	Leeching Lurker	Creature
Edgar, Charmed Groom	Creature	Edgar Markov's Coffin	Artifact
Wedding Announcement	Enchantment	Wedding Festivity	Enchantment
Westvale Abbey	Land	Ormendahl, Profane Prince	Creature

Uncommons

Front Face	Card Type(s)	Back Face	Card Type(s)	Set
Accursed Witch	Creature	Infectious Curse	Enchantment (Aura Curse)
Autumnal Gloom	Enchantment	Ancient of the Equinox	Creature
Chalice of Life	Artifact	Chalice of Death	Artifact
Cryptolith Fragment	Artifact	Aurora of Emrakul	Creature
Dormant Grove	Enchantment	Gnarled Grovestrider	Creature
Foreboding Statue	Artifact Creature	Forsaken Thresher	Artifact Creature
Harvest Hand	Artifact Creature	Scrounged Scythe	Artifact (Equipment)
Heirloom Mirror	Artifact	Inherited Fiend	Creature
Mysterious Tome	Artifact	Chilling Chronicle	Artifact
Mystic Skull	Artifact	Mystic Monstrosity	Artifact Creature
Neglected Heirloom	Artifact (Equipment)	Ashmouth Blade	Artifact (Equipment)
Radiant Grace	Enchantment (Aura)	Radiant Restraints	Enchantment (Aura Curse)
Skin Invasion	Enchantment (Aura)	Skin Shedder	Creature
Soul Seizer	Creature	Ghastly Haunting	Enchantment (Aura)
Soulcipher Board	Artifact	Cipherbound Spirit	Creature
Thraben Gargoyle	Artifact Creature	Stonewing Antagonizer	Artifact Creature
Vengeful Strangler	Creature	Strangling Grasp	Enchantment (Aura)

Disturb Auras

Front Face	Card Type(s)	Back Face	Card Type(s)	Set
Faithbound Judge	Creature	Sinner's Judgment	Enchantment (Aura Curse)
Dorothea, Vengeful Victim	Creature	Dorothea's Retribution	Enchantment (Aura)
Katilda, Dawnhart Martyr	Creature	Katilda's Rising Dawn	Enchantment (Aura)
Mirrorhall Mimic	Creature	Ghastly Mimicry	Enchantment (Aura)
Brine Comber	Creature	Brinebound Gift	Enchantment (Aura)
Distracting Geist	Creature	Clever Distraction	Enchantment (Aura)
Gutter Skulker	Creature	Gutter Shortcut	Enchantment (Aura)
Mischievous Catgeist	Creature	Catlike Curiosity	Enchantment (Aura)
Twinblade Geist	Creature	Twinblade Invocation	Enchantment (Aura)
Binding Geist	Creature	Spectral Binding	Enchantment (Aura)
Drogskol Infantry	Creature	Drogskol Armaments	Enchantment (Aura)
Kindly Ancestor	Creature	Ancestor's Embrace	Enchantment (Aura)
Lantern Bearer	Creature	Lantern's Lift	Enchantment (Aura)

Igniting Planeswalkers

In Magic Origins, Core Set 2019, and Modern Horizons 3, there are cards representing planeswalkers whose spark is igniting, represented by creatures that transform into planeswalkers. Magic Origins features a cycle of mono-color planeswalkers; Core Set 2019 features a single planeswalker, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager, that is tricolored on both faces; Modern Horizons 3 has a cycle of mono-colored creatures on the front and two-colored planeswalkers on the back.

Ixalan

In the Ixalan block, they represent the journey into uncharted territory and the discovery of new locales. Enchantments and artifacts represent a tool or event along the journey and transform into a land that represents the destination. Ixalan features a cycle of mono-color enchantments and five artifacts, while Rivals of Ixalan features a cycle of enemy-color enchantments, an artifact, and an artifact creature.

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty used the storytelling aspect of Sagas and linked them to many Kamis' spiritual embodiments of history and concepts. The enchantment front side tells the tale as recorded on various forms of artwork, while the backside is an enchantment creature, the Kami that is borne from that legend's influence on the world. Each has identical third and final chapter abilities, where they exile themselves and return transformed.

March of the Machine

March of the Machine introduced a new card type, Battle, to represent a new gameplay dynamic. A Battle gives a player a secondary target to achieve in defeating by dealing sufficient damage, and an opponent has the opportunity to defend them. All the Sieges in March of the Machine are double-faced cards with the front uniquely designed as a horizontal landscape showing the Invasion of a certain plane (all Sieges follow the naming convention of "Invasion of X"). Defeating a siege causes the card to be exiled, and the back face is cast as a payoff.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

The new mechanic of Craft transforms artifacts into various other permanents. Each exile themselves and a crafting "ingredient" (another card or cards) and returns transformed. Of the "landmark" transformers, there is a cycle of "Deepest" Gods that transform into a land whose non-mana ability is transforming back.

The Jurassic World cards include a Saga that transforms into a land.

Modal DFCs

• The MDFCs of Zendikar Rising all feature lands on their back face. All generate one color of mana and by and large, enter tapped; the mythic cycle of lands enter untapped if their controller pays 3 life.
  • Notably, six of them are Pathway lands, which are lands on both sides that tap for different colors of mana.
• The primary MDFCs of Kaldheim all feature legendary God creatures on their front face, and a legendary non-land permanent on the back face.
  • While most of the back faces are artifacts, three of the Mythics have other permanent types on the back:
    • Alrund's back face is Hakka, a blue bird creature.
    • Esika's back face is a five-color enchantment.
    • Valki's back face is a black and red Tibalt planeswalker.
  • Kaldheim additionally features the remaining four lands of the Pathway cycle that weren't printed in Zendikar Rising.
• The MDFCs of Strixhaven: School of Mages all feature enemy color combinations, except for one that is colorless. These are the first to have non-permanents on the back faces.
  • Notably, only one of these has two colors on the front face (), while its back face is allied color ().
• Transformers has a mechanic that merges both transforming and modal DFCs using More Than Meets the Eye.
• Modern Horizons 3 reprised the MDFC lands, this time as uncommons with the "pay 3 life" clause. There were also now some dual taplands with hybrid spell fronts.

See also

• Reversible card