(We have since brought back "cast" to lessen part of this problem.) The joke that most people miss was that we asked the artist, Stephen Daniele, to give us an illustration that would like one thing one way and like a different thing upside down
In Commander its an auto-include in colorless or artifact deck, too
If you can flicker a permanent, you also get to enjoy the effect again
Authority of the Consuls has certainly helped in recent months, but poor White control decks have, at least off-and-on, been knocked around silly by Urabrask's Forge and other pesky artifacts
Upgrade 9 Gate to the Afterlife is another card draw engine that suffers from timing
Rule 712.4 tells us all we need to know: While a double-faced card is outside the game or in a zone other than the battlefield or stack, it has only the characteristics of its front face. Its the only face we can evaluate for commander-ness