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Ixidron

Card Name

Ixidron

Mana Cost

3

Type

Creature – Illusion

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

As this creature enters, turn all other nontoken creatures face down. (They're 2/2 creatures.)Ixidron's power and toughness are each equal to the number of face-down creatures on the battlefield.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(9/25/2006)
If Ixidron and another creature are entering at the same time, the other creature enters face up.
(9/25/2006)
The controller of a face-down creature can look at it at any time, even if it doesn't have morph. Other players can't, but the rules for face-down permanents state that "you must ensure at all times that your face-down spells and permanents can be easily differentiated from each other." As a result, all players must be able to figure out what each of the creatures Ixidron turned face down is.
(9/25/2006)
You turn the creatures face-down *as* Ixidron enters. There is never a moment when Ixidron is on the battlefield and the creatures are face-up. If a creature on the battlefield has a "whenever another creature enters" ability, it won't trigger because that creature will be face down before Ixidron enters.
(9/25/2006)
Turning a face-down creature face-down typically has no effect; the creature's status is unchanged.
(4/27/2018)
Creatures turned face down by Ixidron are 2/2 creatures with no text, no name, no subtypes, no expansion symbol, and no mana cost. These values are copiable if an object becomes a copy of one of those creatures, and their normal values are not copiable.