What is Rule 108.3 in MTG?

108.3 The owner of a card in the game is the player who started the game with it in their deck. If a card is brought into the game from outside the game rather than starting in a player's deck, its owner is the player who brought it into the game.

What is Rule 112.3 A MTG?

112.3a Spell abilities are abilities that are followed as instructions while an instant or sorcery spell is resolving. Any text on an instant or sorcery spell is a spell ability unless it's an activated ability, a triggered ability, or a static ability that fits the criteria described in rule 112.6.

What is MTG Rule 107.3 F?

107.3f If a card in any zone other than the stack has an {X} in its mana cost, the value of {X} is treated as 0, even if the value of X is defined somewhere within its text.

What is Rule 101.2 MTG?

101.2. When a rule or effect allows or directs something to happen, and another effect states that it can't happen, the “can't” effect takes precedence.

What is the rule 400.7 A?

400.7a. This is the rule that explains which effects applying to a permanent spell can continue to apply to the permanent it becomes on the battlefield.

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What is Rule 701.47 MTG?

701.47. The first subrule in this section explains the connive keyword action. Specifically, if a creature is instructed to connive, its controller draws a card, then discards a card. If a nonland permanent is discarded this way, that player puts a +1/+1 counter on the conniving permanent.

What is Magic Rule 800.4 A?

800.4a When a player leaves the game, all objects (see rule 109) owned by that player leave the game and any effects which give that player control of any objects or players end. Then, if that player controlled any objects on the stack not represented by cards, those objects cease to exist.

What is Rule 610.3 MTG?

610.3a If a resolving spell or activated ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the object to change zones, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that spell or ability was put onto the stack, the object doesn't move.

What is MTG Rule 603.3 B?

603.3b If multiple abilities have triggered since the last time a player received priority, each player, in APNAP order, puts triggered abilities they control on the stack in any order they choose.

What is Rule 118.4 in MTG?

118.4. If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0, the player may do so only if their life total is greater than or equal to the amount of the payment. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from their life total; in other words, the player loses that much life.

What is 302.6 rule MTG?

302.6 A creature's activated ability with the tap symbol or the untap symbol in its activation cost can't be activated unless the creature has been under its controller's control continuously since their most recent turn began.

What is Rule 121.3 MTG?

121.3 If there are no cards in a player's library and an effect offers that player the choice to draw a card, that player can choose to do so. However, if an effect says that a player can't draw cards and another effect offers that player the choice to draw a card, that player can't choose to do so.

What is Rule 701.38 MTG?

701.38c A creature can be goaded by multiple players. Doing so creates additional combat requirements. 701.38d Once a player has goaded a creature, the same player goading it again has no effect. Doing so doesn't create additional combat requirements.

What is Rule 118.9 MTG?

118.9c An alternative cost doesn't change a spell's mana cost, only what its controller has to pay to cast it. Spells and abilities that ask for that spell's mana cost still see the original value.

What is Rule 111.11 MTG?

111.11. If an effect instructs a player to create a token that is a copy of a nonexistent object, no token is created (see rule 707, “Copying Objects”). This does not apply to an effect that would use the last known information of an object.

What is Rule 701.17 MTG?

701.17c If multiple players scry at once, each of those players looks at the top cards of their library at the same time. Those players decide in APNAP order (see rule 101.4) where to put those cards, then those cards move at the same time.

What is Rule 805.8 MTG?

805.8. If an effect gives a player an extra turn or adds a phase or step to that player's turn, that player's team takes the extra turn, phase, or step. If an effect causes a player to skip a step, phase, or turn, that player's team does so.

What is MTG Rule 510.1 C?

510.1c A blocked creature assigns its combat damage to the creatures blocking it. If no creatures are currently blocking it (if, for example, they were destroyed or removed from combat), it assigns no combat damage. If exactly one creature is blocking it, it assigns all its combat damage to that creature.

What is Rule 701.15 MTG?

701.15a If the effect of a resolving spell or ability regenerates a permanent, it creates a replacement effect that protects the permanent the next time it would be destroyed this turn.

What is Rule 119.8 MTG?

119.8 If an effect says that a player can't lose life, that player can't make an exchange such that the player's life total would become lower; in that case, the exchange won't happen.

What is Rule 108.2 in MTG?

108.2 When a rule or text on a card refers to a “card,” it means only a Magic card or an object represented by a Magic card. 108.2a Most Magic games use only traditional Magic cards, which measure approximately 2.5 inches (6.3 cm) by 3.5 inches (8.8 cm).

What is Rule 113.8 MTG?

113.8 The controller of an activated ability on the stack is the player who activated it.

What is Rule 702.145 MTG?

702.145e Nightbound is found on the back faces of some transforming double-faced cards and represents two static abilities. “Nightbound” means “As it becomes day, if this permanent is back face up, transform it” and “This permanent can't transform except due to its nightbound ability.”

What is Magic Rule 702.15 F?

702.15f Multiple instances of lifelink on the same object are redundant.

What is Rule 601.2 F MTG?

601.2f The player determines the total cost of the spell. Usually this is just the mana cost. Some spells have additional or alternative costs. Some effects may increase or reduce the cost to pay, or may provide other alternative costs.