MDFC side preference

[Morganator 2.0]

We've had a lot of time now to use the modal double-faced cards from Zendikar Rising and Strixhaven. So of the cards that you use, is there one side to them that you prefer to use, or a side that you'll never use?

For example, I'll always play the Wandering Archaic side. Explore the Vastlands just isn't as good of an ability.

[The Golgari Guy]

I mostly play the Zendikar MDFCs, and with them my reasoning is pretty simple: if I need a land drop, I play the land side. Otherwise, I hold it back.

In one deck I play Selfless Glyphweaver // Deadly Vanity, but I still have to draw it.

[WWolfe]

The one I'm currently playing in a deck, Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt , I find myself always playing Agadeem's Awakening. I rarely need the mana but almost always is the other side relevant even if it's only for x equaling 3-4.

[Aetherium Slinky]

I'm kinda 50-50 on this. I try to use my mana efficiently and hence I just slap a land MDFC down as a land if it's not useful immediately or in the near future. I like my land drops so that's my justification for it. Haven't regretted those decisions too many times to change my attitude towards them.

When it comes to the MDFCs that have a spell on both sides... I don't really play those. I like flexibility in general but I just don't find myself adding those to my decks due to finding other cards that do the thing better.

[ApothecaryGeist]

I don't find myself using a lot of MDFCs.  Except the Pathways.  I use those a lot.



I do like Malakir Rebirth.  At only 1 mana, the land on the back is just a bonus.  I've never played that land.


I've got a couple other MDFCs in some decks right now.  Most are in the deck specifically just for one side.


The exception is Egon, God of Death.  He's in my Kathril deck.  I intend to cast Throne of Death to help power the graveyard action.  But then when it is in the graveyard itself, it is a creature with deathtouch for Kathril to trigger with.

[Bonethousand]

I love Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder. Mila really is incredible in a Boros deck that's not running a lot of hexproof. And when she's a late draw and I get to cast Lukka, woah buddy. Card advantage, recursion, and a potential Terror of the Peaks in one (admittedly slow and janky) card? I'll take it.

[WWolfe]

Necro'ing this because it's relevant to the conversation I was thinking about...

Do you find yourself using these now? More or less than you did? What about the Pathways?

I'm still really only using the one (Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt), but I'm more and more interested in the Pathways (guess I'm late to the party). I think they're a good fit in some of my decks. Anyone else?

[Landale]

Honestly, I dislike the double sided cards entirely since they're a hassle to keep flipping as needed. Adventures, Kamigawa flips, split cards, all of those are much more user friendly than double sided stuff. I use double sided stuff about as much as I always have, which is to say as little as possible.
That said, I do end up using a few of them just because they're powerful enough to be needed even with the frustration of their use or I never end up needing to flip them. I have two different copies of Ayara, Widow of the Realm sleeved up for her deck, one for each side, a couple different pathways that almost never get flipped and even if they do I don't generally need to reflip them when they do, Flamescroll Celebrant for Winota, Poppet Stitcher for Wilhelt combos, and a few good battles like Invasion of Karsus in Neera, Wild Mage for example giving me a Guttersnipe without it being a creature while in the deck to avoid interfering with polymorphing tokens into Displacer Kitten.

[stuffnsuch]

It really depends on the card.  For instance, I almost always play Echoing Equation and never Augmenter Pugilist; I play Valentin, Dean of the Vein when I need more life gain triggers and Lisette, Dean of the Root when I need more life gain pay offs; and I almost always end up casting both sides of Jadzi, Oracle of Arcavios // Journey to the Oracle, since I draw soooo many cards in my Kalamax, the Stormsire Deck.