Double-Faced Cards, and Other Details We Got Right

Magic has a lot of cards that don’t fit in one box. Modal double-faced cards are a spell on one side and a land on the other. Transform cards turn into something else. Meld cards combine into a third card. Kindred cards have a type most tools forget about.

A collection app has to know what each of these actually is, or the small numbers start to drift. Your land count is off by two. A list is missing a card you know belongs there. Search can’t find a card you’re looking right at.

We spent the last stretch working through these details. Here’s what changed.

Search finds both faces

Search now looks at every face of a card. An exact name search for !"Insectile Aberration" finds Delver of Secrets. Back-face rules text, type lines, power and toughness are all searchable too, so t:land includes cards like Sea Gate Restoration, whose back is a land.

Lands that are also spells

Cards like Sea Gate Restoration and Agadeem’s Awakening now count as lands in your deck’s land count, the mana base stage of the brew wizard, and the mana coverage check. They still count as spells everywhere else that matters, like your removal and draw counts and the mana curve. That’s how you actually play them: a land when you need one, a spell when you don’t.

Transform cards with a land on the back, like Search for Azcanta, are different. You can’t play the land side from your hand, so they don’t count as lands.

Imports match either face

If your CSV lists Delver of Secrets instead of the full two-face name, Icarian finds the right card. Matching is exact, so short names like Ice land on the card you meant, not something that happens to contain those letters.

Lists see every face

Rule-based lists now check every face of a card. A planeswalker list includes Valki, God of Lies, whose back is Tibalt. A land list picks up modal double-faced cards. Type rules also match supertypes and subtypes now, so a rule for Legendary Creature Dragon finds exactly what you’d expect.

Recommendations read both sides

Card profiles now carry the rules text from every face. When Icarian works out what a card does for your deck, it sees the whole card, not just the front.

Meld cards

Meld cards like Bruna, the Fading Light no longer show a Flip button. The melded card (Brisela, Voice of Nightmares) is its own card with its own page.

Battle and Kindred in your deck list

Battles get their own section in the deck list. Kindred cards like Bitterblossom go under their main type, so Bitterblossom sits with your enchantments.

Cards that break the singleton rule

Some cards say “A deck can have any number of cards named…” Deck validation now reads that text from the card itself. Relentless Rats and Shadowborn Apostle don’t trigger singleton warnings. Cards with a printed limit get that limit, so Nazgûl stops at nine and Seven Dwarves at seven. New cards with the same wording work automatically.

Crossover cards use their Oracle name

Some printings carry a different name on the card than in the rules, like the Godzilla Series cards and a few Secret Lair drops. Card and commander pages now use the Oracle name, the one the rules use for every printing. Godzilla, King of the Monsters shows up as Zilortha, Strength Incarnate, the same card you’d find in a tournament decklist.

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None of these will change how you use Icarian. They should just make the numbers right more often. If you spot a card we still get wrong, send it our way through the feedback button.

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