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Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
{2}{U} · Creature — Weird // Land
Flash When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature. // As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.
Rulings (9)
Jun 7, 2024 · A modal double-faced card can't be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. Ignore any instruction to transform a modal double-faced card or to put one onto the battlefield transformed.
Jun 7, 2024 · If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than "play") a specific modal double-faced card, you can't play it as a land.
Jun 7, 2024 · The spell's target is changed to Hydroelectric Specimen only if Hydroelectric Specimen is a legal target for that spell.
Jun 7, 2024 · The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.
Jun 7, 2024 · If a spell has multiple targets but it's targeting the same creature with all of them (such as Seeds of Strength targeting the same creature three times) you can target that spell with Hydroelectric Specimen's ability. In that case, you change all of those targets to Hydroelectric Specimen.
Jun 7, 2024 · If a spell has multiple targets, you can't target it with Hydroelectric Specimen's ability, even if only one of those targets is a creature or all but one of those targets have become illegal.
Jun 7, 2024 · If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, you consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card's front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up. For example, if an effect allows you to put a creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield, you can put Disciple of Freyalise onto the battlefield. However, an effect that lets you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand won't let you return Garden of Freyalise to your hand, as that card has only its front face's characteristics while in the graveyard.