My opinion now is that they should count as either one or the other;, and you can visually indicate that by sleeving it up with the face it counts as facing up
You also lock down the ability for everyone to cast any non-dork that has the same cost, so you can shut down a lot of Gaddock Teeg removal as well
There are also Promo sets
Once Derevi is on the battlefield, the common strategies involving it are either to go wide with a lot of evasive creatures to generate absurd amounts of mana from lands and mana rocks or to start tapping things down in tandem with Stax cards like Stasis and Winter Orb to create an incredibly tight stranglehold over the board
Ability Breakdown Lets take a look at his abilities: Given that most Sagas have three chapters and go away after the third chapter, it will be more difficult than you think to unlock this first ability
You get to go really wide with this in self-mill decks, and it can also be a decent Mobilizer in the midgame as a Deathtouch attacker that can spawn two or three tokens