Card played face down = morph?

[spr]

Can I assume that if a card can be played face down then it is a morph card?

The reason I ask is that in code a card can have a "facedown" characteristic which I think is not necessarily restricted to morph cards.

Cheers,
Steve.

[friarsol]

Morph cards are cards with the ability "Morph" like Aphetto Alchemist ; there is another card that deals with facedown creatures http://magiccards.info/cedi/en/251.html which is kinda like Pseudo-morph.

But as far as seeing what's on the otherside of a facedown creature, they are equivilant enough.

[Marek14]

There's also Ixidron which can turn face-down even cards without morph.

[spr]

friarsol, marek - thanks for the clarification.

One futher question. In the attached screenshot I have played Nantuko Vigilante face down. The backside image in the play area is different to that shown in the preview pane. Is this correct?

Cheers,
Steve

[moomarc]

friarsol, marek - thanks for the clarification.

One futher question. In the attached screenshot I have played Nantuko Vigilante face down. The backside image in the play area is different to that shown in the preview pane. Is this correct?

Cheers,
Steve

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At one stage we had a token-style morph image instead of the card back, but I thought that fell away. Regardless, whatever is shown on the battlefield should be shown in the card panel. For face-down cards that you control it could be the front face I guess, but I'd prefer back face that you can flip like a double sided card.

[Marek14]

How about adding "Back face" tab to the Card Preview panel? If the other face of card is inaccessible to a player, then it should just display a question mark. For normal cards, it would display a back face, for face-down cards their normal face and for double-faced cards the currently invisible face.
Plus, there might still be a use for the special morph picture: you could set it to be used for tokens that are copies of face-down cards; the tokens copy their stats, but they are still face up.

[spr]

Answering my own question - the play area image needs to be the token. In the above screen shot, the image is big enough that the P/T overlay text is not shown so without looking at the preview picture you would not necessarily know that it is playing as a 2/2 creature.

Cheers,
Steve

[Max mtg]

How about adding "Back face" tab to the Card Preview panel? If the other face of card is inaccessible to a player, then it should just display a question mark. For normal cards, it would display a back face, for face-down cards their normal face and for double-faced cards the currently invisible face.

just press shift while moving mouse over your card