Meld card

Meld card: Hanweir, the Writhing Township formed by melding Hanweir Battlements with Hanweir Garrison

Meld cards are similar to double-faced cards and were introduced with Eldritch Moon.

Each meld pair consists of two specific cards whose back faces combine to form one oversized Magic card face: Midnight Scavengers and Graf Rats meld to form Chittering Host; Hanweir Garrison and Hanweir Battlements meld to form Hanweir, the Writhing Township; and Bruna, the Fading Light and Gisela, the Broken Blade meld to form Brisela, Voice of Nightmares.

A meld card isn't a double-faced card. It can't transform or enter the battlefield transformed.

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (April 12, 2024—Outlaws of Thunder Junction)

Meld Cards

Cards with a Magic card face on one side and half of an oversized Magic card face on the other. See rule 712, “Double-Faced Cards.”

Rulings

• Although meld cards look similar to double-faced cards, they are not considered to be double-faced cards. They don't transform—instead, their back faces combine in pairs to form a single oversized card face.
  • However, draft events involving meld cards are identical as double-faced cards, which is revealed to all players until next pick, unless the event is a pre-sleeved (for some Pro REL events) or the draft happened in Magic Online.
• One card in each pair of meld cards has an ability that instructs you to exile the two cards and meld them. If you control more than one object with one of those names, you select one object with that name to exile.
• When two cards are exiled and melded, they each leave the battlefield, then return together as one new untapped object with no relation to either of the objects that left the battlefield. Counters, Auras, Equipment, and other effects that affected those two cards don't affect the melded permanent.
• Only two cards belonging to the same meld pair can be melded. Tokens, cards that aren't meld cards, or meld cards that don't form a meld pair can't be melded. If an effect instructs a player to meld cards that can't be melded, those cards remain in exile.
• While a meld card is anywhere other than the battlefield, or is on the battlefield with its front face up, it has only the characteristics of its front face.
• While a melded permanent is on the battlefield, it has only the characteristics of its combined back face. Any effects that modify how the new object enters the battlefield will consider only the combined back face.
• The converted mana cost of a melded permanent is the sum of the converted mana costs of its front faces. A creature that becomes a copy of a melded permanent has only the characteristics of that combined back face, and its converted mana cost is 0.
• A player prompted to name a card may name the combined back face, and each player has the right to know that combined back face's characteristics at all times.
• If an effect moves a melded permanent to a new zone and then affects "that card," it affects both cards.

See also

• Checklist cards
• Double-faced cards
• Double-faced tokens
• Meld
• Transform