<p><strong>Yes, you can.</strong></p>
<p>It doesn't matter how a creature got turned face-down. All morph cares about is that the creature is indeed face-down. Face-down is a status like e.g. tapped/untapped.</p>
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<p>110.6. A permanent’s status is its physical state. There are four status categories, each of which has two possible values: tapped/untapped, flipped/unflipped, face up/face down, and phased in/phased out. Each permanent always has one of these values for each of these categories.</p>
<p>702.36a Morph is a static ability that functions in any zone from which you could play the card it’s on, and <strong>the morph effect works any time the card is face down.</strong> [..]</p>
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Note that if those creatures do not have morph, then there is normally no way to make them turn face-up again by themselves. You will have to use other cards to turn them back, or make them leave the battlefield and return (in which case they will return face-up unless explicitly told otherwise).
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<p>For example, assume that both my opponent and I have a face-up creature with Morph on the battlefield.</p>

<p>I cast <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bIxidron%5d">Ixidron</a> and it enters the battlefield. </p>

<p>Can both creatures be turned face-up again later in the game, by paying the Morph cost, even though they weren't turned face-down "normally"?</p>

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Can cards turned face-down by Ixidron be turned face up again?
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# Can cards turned face-down by Ixidron be turned face up again?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-20)

For example, assume that both my opponent and I have a face-up creature with Morph on the battlefield.

I cast [Ixidron](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?name=%2b%5bIxidron%5d) and it enters the battlefield.

Can both creatures be turned face-up again later in the game, by paying the Morph cost, even though they weren't turned face-down "normally"?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-20. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

**Yes, you can.**

It doesn't matter how a creature got turned face-down. All morph cares about is that the creature is indeed face-down. Face-down is a status like e.g. tapped/untapped.

> 110.6. A permanent’s status is its physical state. There are four status categories, each of which has two possible values: tapped/untapped, flipped/unflipped, face up/face down, and phased in/phased out. Each permanent always has one of these values for each of these categories.
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> 702.36a Morph is a static ability that functions in any zone from which you could play the card it’s on, and **the morph effect works any time the card is face down.** [..]

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Note that if those creatures do not have morph, then there is normally no way to make them turn face-up again by themselves. You will have to use other cards to turn them back, or make them leave the battlefield and return (in which case they will return face-up unless explicitly told otherwise).  

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