UnCommander: Legal - use with caution
Card Name:
Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader
Mana Cost:
Converted Mana Cost:
5
Types:
Legendary Artifact Creature — Autobot
Rules Text:
: Turn over target permanent you control. (if it’s a double-faced card, transform it. If it’s a non double-sided card, turn it face down if it is currently face up, or turn it face up if it is currently face down. If it is a melded creature, exile it, then return those meld cards to the battlefield under their owners’ control with their front faces up. This effect does nothing to nonmelded meld cards. If it is a combined creature, treat all its constituents ,regardless of type, as though they were individual objects and apply this process to each constituent. The constituents remain combined.)
: Until end of turn, Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader becomes a Construct with base power and toughness 6/6 and creatures you control gain trample.
Power / Toughness:
4/5
Color:
Red, White
Color Identity:
Watermark:
Autobot (Transformers)
Border Type:
Black-bordered
This printing Illustrated by Steve Argyle
Printing: 2018 Heroes of the Realm
UnCommander Rulings
In UnCommander, Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader is not a double-faced (or triple-faced) card. The physical card has two other faces, but these are only functional in the Transformers Trading Card Game, not Magic: The Gathering.
Turning over a double-sided card using Optimus Prime’s ability does not count as transforming it.
Effects that care about being “turned face up” or “turned face down” can count objects turned over by Optimus Prime’s ability. However, a double-faced permanent being turned to its back face does not count as being “turned face down”.
Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader’s second printed ability does not make it lose its abilities, just changes its subtypes, base power and toughness.
Optimus Prime has been given errata to change its typing to be consistent with Magic terminology. Its frame makes it clear that it is intended to be legendary, its power and toughness suggest that it is meant to be a creature, and the metallic outer card frame suggests that it is an artifact. Grimlock, Dinobot Leader is a precedent for how Transformers are represented in Magic.
It seems a bit of a missed opportunity that Optimus Prime doesn’t turn into a vehicle with his second ability, as he has the artifact type already. This would potentially be confusing though, as he is already a creature and doesn’t have a crew ability.
-Hamster
Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader
Autobot Character — Bot Mode : Turn target permanent you control to its other face. : Until end of turn, Optimus Prime, Inspiring Leader becomes a Construct with base power and toughness 6/6 and creatures you control gain trample.
4/5
“Roll out!”
Illustrated by Steve Argyle