Transform

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To transform a permanent is to turn a double-faced card over to its other face.

How it works

• Transforming double-faced cards have a front face and a back face.
• An effect that transforms the permanent flips it to its other face. Its characteristics become those of the new face.

Rules notes

• Transforming is not the same as entering or leaving the battlefield. The permanent stays on the battlefield as the same object, so it does not trigger enters or leaves abilities by transforming.
• A permanent can only transform if it is a transforming double-faced permanent. Single-faced cards and meld cards cannot transform.
• Transforming does not change whether the creature is summoning sick.

Rule reference

[701.27]