Trying to see what older cards interact w/ a face-down, not yet in the game creatures. First I was thinking Riftsweeper, but that's face-up.
To hone in my research, what zone would a card w/ foretell be in when it's placed face down? Or is it just in limbo such as cards that have been phased out.
Is it considered exiled? And when should it be countered: when it's place faced down or when the rest of it's cost is played? I think the core question is when the foretell cost is initially played, how can the owner of the card or the opponent interact with it?
If a card with foretell (such as Augury Raven) is in your hand, you may exile it face down by paying 2, not its foretell cost (C.R. 702.142a; review C.R. 702.1a). Thus, the card will be in exile (and not, say, on the battlefield face down) for the purposes of effects that care about exiled cards or cards in exile. The action of exiling the card this way is a special action (C.R. 702.142b). Exiling the card this way is not the same as casting the card, though, so it doesn't go on the stack first — compare with All Hallow's Eve (C.R. 108.1). However, casting the card on a later turn after it's exiled this way is the same as casting any other spell except a foretell cost on that card is paid rather than the mana cost (C.R. 702.142a); and the resulting spell can be countered like any other spell.
EDIT (Mar. 6): Edited since Kaldheim was released.
To hone in my research, what zone would a card w/ foretell be in when it's placed face down? Or is it just in limbo such as cards that have been phased out.
Is it considered exiled? And when should it be countered: when it's place faced down or when the rest of it's cost is played? I think the core question is when the foretell cost is initially played, how can the owner of the card or the opponent interact with it?
EDIT (Mar. 6): Edited since Kaldheim was released.