Heyo, just have a quick question that I wanted stright answers on after reading the rules for Valki, God of Lies I wanted to double check something. Does this ruling here: "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," mean that I can't use Planebound Accomplice to play the planeswalker side from hand?
In your hand, those cards aren't planeswalker cards, just creature cards. Because anywhere but on the battlefield and the stack, the game only sees the front face of a card. You are not playing the card with Planebound Accomplice's ability, you are putting it onto the battlefield. Those are different game actions, even if they are similar. Even if two different game actions would actually be doing the exact same thing (like drawing a card vs. putting a card from the top of your library into your hand), they are still treated as different game actions. You have to actually be playing an MDFC to play the backside. You have to actually transform a transforming DFC to get the backside.
I assume the same goes for Nicol Bolas, the Ravager.
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