What happens if you flicker a face down creature?
Flickering or blinking a face-down morph creature reverts it back to being face-up, and then it enters the battlefield face-up, allowing you to effectively use your flicker spell to turn your creature face-up without paying its morph cost. This process essentially resets the creature, making it enter the battlefield as if it were just cast, giving you a significant strategic advantage in gameplay.
Understanding Flicker Effects
To delve deeper into the implications of flickering a face-down creature, it’s essential to understand the broader context of flicker effects and how they interact with various aspects of the game, including creatures, permanents, counters, and auras.
Related FAQs
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Does flickering a creature give it summoning sickness? Yes, it does. You may not be casting the creature again, but they’re being removed from existence temporarily and put back into place, which counts as a new entry into the battlefield and thus incurs summoning sickness.
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Can you blink a face-down card? If you exile a face-down creature, it will enter the exile zone face-up, and if it returns to the battlefield, it will enter the battlefield face-up.
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Does flickering a creature stop removal? Flickering removes all counters and auras from a creature and makes it dodge targeted removal if a spell “flickering” that creature is played in response to the removal spell targeting it.
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What happens if you blink a manifested creature? If it’s a permanent, it’ll come back to the battlefield face-up. If it’s an Instant or Sorcery, it stays in Exile.
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Do blinked creatures keep counters? No, they do not. When a creature is flickered, it is removed from the game and placed into the exile zone, where it loses all memory of its former state, including any damage incurred, enchantments, counters, equipment, and any other effect.
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Can you tap a creature that’s already been declared as an attacker or blocker? Yes, you can tap or untap a creature that’s already been declared as an attacker or blocker, but this doesn’t remove it from combat and doesn’t prevent its combat damage.
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Why is Flickerwisp good? Flickerwisp is a valuable creature due to its ability to exile any permanent, making it a strategic asset, especially in aggressive decks, with its 3/1 flying body.
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Can you blink Planeswalkers? Yes, you can indeed use a Planeswalker’s ability, then flicker it and use its ability again that same turn, as once it leaves play, it stops being the same ‘casting’ of the card.
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Do flicker effects untap? Yes, permanents always enter the battlefield untapped unless an effect specifically says they don’t.
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Can you flicker a token? Tokens can be the target of a flicker effect, but they won’t return to the battlefield because when a token moves to another zone (exile, in this case), it ceases to exist.
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Is a face-down creature a token? While most cards which allow permanents to be turned face-down are specifically written to avoid applying to tokens, there is no general rule preventing tokens from doing so, as tokens have status just like any other permanent.
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Are face-down creatures colorless? Face-down morph cards are characterized as 2/2 colorless creatures with no type at all.
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Can you morph at instant speed? The player can then turn that creature face-up at any time they could cast an Instant by paying a variable Morph cost printed on each card.
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Does attacking count as tapping a creature? Tapping a creature when it’s declared as an attacker isn’t a cost; attacking simply causes creatures to become tapped.
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Can you force a creature with vigilance to tap? Yes, that’s one of the main upsides of vigilance. If it’s not tapped, you can activate an ability with Tap in the cost at any time (not just during your main phase), assuming nothing prevents it, like summoning sickness, or a restriction on the card.
By understanding the intricacies of flicker effects and their interaction with face-down creatures, players can leverage these mechanics to gain strategic advantages in their games, making for more dynamic and engaging gameplay experiences.