Guardian Project fails to draw cards for face-down creatures
I was using Vannifar, Evolved Enigma to cloak cards in a historic brawl game with Guardian Project out. To my surprise, I didn't draw a card from Guardian Project. It's my understanding that face-down cards have no name, so they don't share a name with other face-down creatures. Various rulings on the internet support this such as https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/cv92uk/guardian_project_and_morphs_question/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgrules/comments/ec07hx/guardian_project_morph_interaction/ . So I think this is a bug in MTG Arena.
ChronoLuminaire#05924
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Majungasaurus#56842
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I noticed the same issue. This is easy to replicate as you can just put it together in a bot match.
If you have Guardian Project in play and cast a face-down creature, if you control no other face-down creatures you will draw a card, but if you do control another face-down creature it will not proc and you will not draw a card.I believe this issue might come from MTG Arena misinterpreting rule 201.2c. The rule states that a creature with no name does not have a different name than another creature with no name, but in this case, Guardian Project is asking a different question. Guardian Project says "If it doesn't have the same name", which is different.
I checked with a judge and they believe that MTG Arena is wrong in this instance.
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Enigma#90107
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Noticed the same thing, and I believe you’re correct. Would love to see this fixed.