If you're putting one onto the battlefield without playing to cast it, you get the front face, but only if the front face can actually enter the battlefield
A well known fact, from the days before you had to play with sleeves, was also that the first printings of Mirage was far more glossy than other sets (same with some printings of Antiquities), which made Mirage lands sough after by semi-cheaters who wanted to be able to see if the top card of their library was a basic land
I was drawn to art on cards intuitively, Garfield told me, but over time, it became clear that part of the function of the art was to help people identify the card at a glance
In super rare cases, a card is cut while folded, leaving a little bit of extra cardboard attached to the card (aka a flag)
steals it from a giant goose hydra