See Misty Portal.

Huh. It's a spellbomb that bombs itself into a land.

I'm half tempted to say "why?", half tempted to say "3 mana, so it's a kite?" and half tempted to say "Why didn't they do THIS as a cycle instead of the artifact lands?"

So probably about right. Apart from, you know, using flip-card tech and thus being confusing as all getout to actually play.

Flip cards may be confusing, but so long as everyone taps their permanents clockwise (the proper way), they shouldn't be that bad, right?

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but for cards that turn into simple lands like this, and have a simple "front face," flip cards seem so much easier from a gameplay and rules perspective. You don't have to worry about checklist cards or opaque sleeves. You don't have to worry about wacky interactions with things like morph or manifest.

DFCs surely have more design space, and there's literally more space on the card for art and mechanics. I can't argue with that, but I do still think there's at least a small place for flip cards. I'm fairly convinced that the modal lands from Zendikar would have been better as modal flip cards, for instance.

I've played f2f Magic with a guy who taps his cards randomly left or right. Until someone points out to him how aggravating this is, at which point he starts deliberately tapping them all anticlockwise to be annoying. It is rather boggling how perverse some people can be.

Even given that, I still agree with you that flip cards have far fewer logistical problems than DFCs.

For this particular design, I like it a lot. A cantrip Island, or like a Commander's Sphere or Mind Stone that gives you the card up front rather than on sac. Nice in decks that like you playing artifacts, especially the mana-hungry ones like Sludge Strider or suchlike.

That's disgusting. 😨

Thank you, though. I think this is definitely better than the first take.