Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has flying and lifelink. This land enters tapped.: Add
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Complete guide
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel is a versatile modal double-faced card that offers both a powerful combat buff and mana stability. Whether you need to turn a creature into a flying threat or simply need a land to stay on curve, this card adapts to your current board state. It provides white and black mana on its reverse side, while the front side serves as a game-ending Aura.
Aura or Land: Choosing Your Path
As a modal double-faced card (MDFC), you choose which side to play as you move the card from your hand to the stack or battlefield. Glasswing Grace is the front face, a five-mana Aura that grants +2/+2, flying, and lifelink to a creature. Age-Graced Chapel is the back face, a land that enters the battlefield tapped and taps for either White or Black mana. Remember that in your library, graveyard, or hand, the card only possesses the characteristics of the front face, Glasswing Grace.
How it Resolves Step-by-Step
When you cast Glasswing Grace, you must choose a legal target creature. If the target is still legal upon resolution, the Aura enters the battlefield attached to that creature, immediately granting the stat bonus and keywords. If you play Age-Graced Chapel instead, it does not use the stack and cannot be countered; it simply enters the battlefield tapped. Note that if an effect lets you 'cast' cards, you can only use the Aura side, but if an effect lets you 'play' cards, you can choose either side.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to return the land side from the graveyard with effects that target lands. Because only the front face (Glasswing Grace) exists in the graveyard, it is considered an Enchantment card, not a Land card. Additionally, you cannot 'flicker' the land side to have it return as the Aura; if a modal double-faced card leaves the battlefield and returns, it always returns with its front face up unless specified otherwise, and an Aura entering without being cast will fail to stay on the battlefield if there is nothing for it to legally enchant.
When to Play It
Use Age-Graced Chapel early in the game if you are missing land drops or need to fix your colors for White or Black. Save Glasswing Grace for the mid-to-late game to swing a race in your favor. The lifelink keyword combined with flying makes it very difficult for opponents to outdamage you in the air, especially when placed on a creature that already has high power.
Interaction examples
Smothering TitheIf you have Smothering Tithe on the battlefield but are struggling to find the mana to pay for your other spells, you can play Age-Graced Chapel as your land for the turn. This ensures you have the consistent White or Black mana sources needed to utilize the Treasure tokens generated by Smothering Tithe more effectively in later turns.
Anointed ProcessionWhile Anointed Procession is on the battlefield, you might choose to cast Glasswing Grace on a token creature you've created. The lifelink and +2/+2 bonus will help you survive long enough to populate the board with more tokens. Because Glasswing Grace is an Aura and not a token-producing effect, Anointed Procession won't double the enchantment itself, but it ensures you have plenty of targets to choose from.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics. For example, if an effect stops you from casting creature spells, you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise, but you can still play Garden of Freyalise.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect allows you to play a specific modal double-faced card, you may cast it as a spell or play it as a land, as determined by which face you choose to play. If an effect allows you to cast (rather than "play") a specific modal double-faced card, you can't play it as a land.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect. For example, if an effect allows you to play lands from your graveyard, you can play Garden of Freyalise, but you can't cast Disciple of Freyalise.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, you consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card's front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up. For example, if an effect allows you to put a creature card from your graveyard onto the battlefield, you can put Disciple of Freyalise onto the battlefield. However, an effect that lets you return a land card from your graveyard to your hand won't let you return Garden of Freyalise to your hand, as that card has only its front face's characteristics while in the graveyard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of a transforming double-faced card is determined.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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