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Types of Cards
Your deck includes lands and creatures, and it may also include sorceries, instants, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers! On the next few pages, well take a look at what the
different types of cards are and how to use them.
Lands
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Land cards are the foundation of any successful Magic deck.
Lands provide mana, the magical energy you need to cast all
the other cards in your deck. You can play one land during your
main phase on each of your turns. Lands stay on the battlefield
in front of you. Your lands untap (reset) at the start of each of
your turns so that you can use them again.
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different strengths and capabilities. Youll get to know the
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Every card that isnt a land can be cast as a spell. Some types of spells are put
onto the battlefield and become permanents. Other types of spells have their
effect and then go to your graveyard (discard pile).
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Combat
You win the game by reducing your opponents life total to 0. The most common way
to do that is to attack your opponent with creatures during combat.
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Where to Go Next
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Visit DuelsofthePlaneswalkers.com for a free trial.
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Glossary
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flashYou may cast a spell with flash any time draw a new hand with one fewer card. You can
you could cast an instant, even in response to take as many mulligans as you like, but your
other spells. starting hand gets smaller each time. Usually
flyingA creature with flying can be blocked players take mulligans because they dont have
only by other creatures with flying and creatures enough land cards, or because they have too
with reach. many lands and not enough spells.
hasteA creature with haste can attack and you next time, next damageSometimes an ability
can activate its oT abilities as soon as it comes refers to the next time something happens
under your control. or the next damage that a creature or player
would be dealt. Remember that an instant or
hexproofA creature with hexproof cant be ability used in response to something happens
the target of spells or abilities your opponents first.
control, including Aura spells. Your spells and
abilities can still target it. permanentLands, creatures, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers are
indestructibleAn indestructible permanent permanents. They enter the battlefield after you
cant be destroyed by damage or by effects that cast them. Token creatures are also permanents.
say destroy. It can still be sacrificed or exiled. Instants and sorceries are not permanents. They
If an effect reduces an indestructible creatures go to the graveyard after they resolve.
toughness to 0 or less, its still put into its
owners graveyard. protectionA creature with protection from a
color cant be blocked, dealt damage, enchanted,
intimidateA creature with intimidate cant or targeted by anything of that color.
be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or
creatures that share a color with it. reachA creature with reach can block
creatures with flying (and creatures without
lifelinkIf a creature with lifelink deals damage, flying).
its controller also gains that much life.
regenerateRegenerating a creature keeps
manaThis is the energy you get from your it from being destroyed. Instead of being
lands that you use to cast spells. Mana can be destroyed, the creature gets tapped, its removed
white (oW), blue (oU), black (oB), red (oR), green from combat (if its in combat), and all its
(oG), and sometimes even colorless (o1). damage is healed.
mana poolThis is where mana goes after sacrifice Sometimes a card tells you to
you tap your lands for it and before you spend sacrifice a creature or some other permanent.
it. Some abilities tell you to add mana to your To sacrifice a permanent, you move it from
mana pool. These abilities give you mana like the battlefield to your graveyard. You cant
the mana you get from tapping lands. Mana regenerate it or save it in any way. You can
cant be saved from turn to turn. sacrifice only your own permanents.
mulliganAt the start of the game, if you tapTo tap a card is to turn it sideways. You do
dont like your hand, you can take a mulligan. this when you use a land to make mana, when
Shuffle your hand back into your deck and you attack with a creature, or when you activate
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an ability that has the oT symbol as part of its X, oXSome spells and abilities have effects
cost. You cant tap a permanent again until its that change depending on how much mana
been untapped. At the beginning of each of your you use to pay for them. For example, Heat Ray
turns, you untap your tapped cards so you can is an instant spell that costs oXoR and deals X
use them again. damage. If you paid o3oR to cast it, it would deal
targetIf a spell uses the word target, you 3 damage. If you paid o6oR to cast it, it would
choose what the spell will affect when you cast deal 6 damage.
it. The same is true for abilities you activate.
tokenSome cards create token creatures. You
can use token cards from booster packs, glass
beads, dice, or anything else to represent them.
trampleIf a creature with trample would
assign enough damage to its blockers to
destroy them, you may have it assign the rest
of its damage to the player or planeswalker its
attacking.
untapUntap a tapped card by turning it right
side up. When you untap your permanents at
the beginning of your turn, it means that you
can use (tap) them again.
vigilanceA creature with vigilance doesnt
tap to attack. (Vigilance doesnt allow a tapped
creature or a creature that entered the battlefield
this turn to attack, though.)
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Combat Phase
Beginning of combat step
Declare attackers stepTap every creature you want to
attack your opponent with. (A creature cant attack the turn
you cast it unless it has haste.)
Declare blockers stepEach untapped defending creature
may block one attacker. Creatures dont have to block.
C ombat damage stepBlockers and the attackers theyre
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Ending Phase
End step
Cleanup stepDamaged creatures on the battlefield heal.