Splash Portal bug
My opponent played a card on turn 2 that allowed him to manifest dread, which was face down. On turn 3 he played Splash Portal which allowed him to exile the card he had selected for manifest dread and return it to the battlefield, but it allowed him to return it face up without having to pay the cost required by manifest dread. So turn 3 he had 11/11 Darksteel Colossus without paying the mana cost to turn it face up. A bit unfair.
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But complteley within the rules. This is not a bug, this is how the game works.
110.5b Permanents enter the battlefield untapped, unflipped, FACE UP, and phased in unless a spell or
ability says otherwise.Splash Portal exiles the permanent, and then returns it. The spell doesn't specify any deviation from the default status, so with the default status it returns. Which includes FACE UP.