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SetMH3
Collector #240
Released2024-06-14
Rarityuncommon
ArtistRaoul Vitale
LanguageEN
Layoutmodal_dfc
ScryfallOpen ↗

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Modal double-faced — choose one to play
Hydroelectric Specimen
Creature — Weird
Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.
1 / 4
Hydroelectric Laboratory
Land
As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
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Keywords
Flash
Card capabilities
CreatureLandMana production
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (8)
wotc7 Jun 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.
wotc7 Jun 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.
wotc7 Jun 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.
wotc7 Jun 2024
The spell's target is changed to Hydroelectric Specimen only if Hydroelectric Specimen is a legal target for that spell.
wotc7 Jun 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.
wotc7 Jun 2024
To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics. For example, if an effect stops you from casting creature spells, you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise, but you can still play Garden of Freyalise.