magic_the_gathering_rulebook.pdf

AGE 13+

Illus. Aleksi Briclot

YOUR JOURNEY HAS BEGUN

You are a planeswalker, and ahead of you lay countless battles across deadly worlds that defy imagination.

To thrive, let alone survive, you’ll need a base from which you can start.

BASIC RULEBOOK

OBJECT OF THE GAME

he Magic: he Gathering ® game is a strategy game played by two or more players, each of whom has a customized deck of

Magic ™ cards. Over the course of the game, each player will take turns playing cards such as lands (which enable you to play

your other cards), creatures, sorceries, and other spells. Each player starts at 20 life. When you reduce your opponent to 0 life

by attacking with creatures and playing spells, you win!

RULE THE MULTIVERSE

You’re here because you want to learn the Magic: he

Gathering game, the world’s premier trading card game.

It was the irst game of its kind, and it’s still the best and

the biggest.

CONTENTS

Section 1: he Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Five Colors of Mana..................3

Parts of a Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Card Types.........................4

Game Zones........................7

In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a

powerful wizard who ights other planeswalkers for glory,

knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents

all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you

know and the creatures you can summon to ight for you.

Section 2: he Building Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 8

Making Mana.......................8

Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Attacking and Blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Building Your Own Deck.............14

he Golden Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Trading card games like the Magic: he

Gathering game combine collectable

cards with a strategy game. Start your

collection with an intro pack and begin

battling immediately with a ready-to-

play deck.

Once you’ve gotten a handle on how to

play, customize your deck using cards

from booster packs, starting with the

one included in your intro pack. You don’t know what

cards you’ll get in a Magic booster pack. You just start

a collection and trade with other players to get the cards

you want. You can ind stores where Magic cards are sold

at http://locator.wizards.com .

Section 3: Playing a Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Get a Deck........................15

Get a Friend.......................15

Start the Game.....................15

Parts of the Turn....................16

he Next Turn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

he Ever-Changing Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

he best part about a trading card game is that it’s always

changing. You design and build your own unique decks,

and each Magic game you play is diferent. New Magic

expansions are released a few times a year, and each

new expansion brings new ways to stupefy and defeat

your opponents. Check out MagicheGathering.com

for daily articles, insider information, and news about

upcoming sets!

Section 4: Diferent Ways to Play........18

Limited Formats....................18

Constructed Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Multiplayer Variants.................19

Section 5: Glossary ...................20

Questions?..........................34

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1: THE BASICS

Only one thing unites the ininite planes of the Multiverse: mana , the energy that fuels all magic. he ive colors of

mana are imbued in the land itself, and a planeswalker with a connection to a place can call upon its mana from across

the sea of Æther between worlds.

Each color of mana fuels a diferent kind of powerful magic for you to command. For example, red spells have o R in

their costs, and tapping (turning) a Mountain gives you oR that you can spend to cast spells. It’s up to you whether to

master one color or all ive.

FIVE COLORS OF MANA

Plains

Serra Angel

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WHITE

Plains are the source of white magic, the color of light, protection, and above all,

order. White magic is about making and enforcing the rules. White planeswalkers

believe that without laws and the strength to uphold them, anarchy prevails. hose

who follow the rules shall have honor and thrive while those who forsake them

will ultimately sufer.

Basic Land — Plains

Creature — Angel

Flying

Vigilance (Attacking doesn’t cause

this creature to tap.)

Her sword sings more beautifully than

any choir.

Don Hazeltine

Greg Staples

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Island

Convincing Mirage

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BLUE

Blue magic lows from Islands. It focuses on manipulation and intellect. Blue

tampers with the fundamental order of things and thrives on controlling the

environment, bending the rules to suit its own needs. Blue planeswalkers believe

that the most important commodity is knowledge.

Basic Land — Island

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant land

As Convincing Mirage enters the

battlefield, choose a basic land type.

Enchanted land is the chosen type.

“Where are we?You must learn to ask

more useful questions than that.”

Ryan Pancoast

Scott Bailey

Swamp

Cemetery Reaper

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BLACK

Swamps are the source of black magic—the magic of death, decay, and power.

Black planeswalkers embrace their ambition, and are willing to pay a price for

greatness. hey believe that life is about gaining power at all costs. Everything and

everyone is a possible resource.

Basic Land — Swamp

Creature — Zombie

Other Zombie creatures you control

get +1/+1.

o 2 o B , o T : Exile target creature card from

a graveyard. Put a 2/2 black Zombie

creature token onto the battlefield.

Every grave cradles a recruit.

Jim Pavelec

Dave Allsop

2/2

Mountain

Seismic Strike

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RED

Red magic comes from Mountains. Red planeswalkers can literally crush the

ground beneath their feet, or call upon furious volcanic activity to destroy their

foes. hey want results and action instead of deliberation and debate. Chaos,

destruction, and war—these are red magic’s staples.

Basic Land — Mountain

Instant

Seismic Strike deals damage to target

creature equal to the number of

Mountains you control.

“Life up here is simple. Adapt to the ways

of the mountains and they will reward

you. Fight them and they will end you.”

—Kezim, prodigal pyromancer

Christopher Moeller

Nils Hamm

Forest

Ant Queen

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GREEN

Forests are the root of green magic. From the power of nature, green magic provides

growth and life to the planeswalkers who wield it. Green planeswalkers live and

die according to the law of the jungle: only the strong survive, and every living

thing is either predator or prey. Green planeswalkers believe that growth is the

foundation of everything. In the end, life will win out.

Basic Land — Forest

Creature — Insect

o 1 o G : Put a 1/1 green Insect creature

token onto the battlefield.

“Kill the queen first, or we’ll be fighting

her drones forever. It is not in a queen’s

nature to have enough servants.”

—Borzard, exterminator captain

John Avon

Trevor Claxton

5/5

SECTION 1: THE BASICS

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PARTS OF A CARD

CARD NAME

Shivan Dragon

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MANA COST

Mana is the main resource in the

game. It’s produced by lands, and you

spend it to cast spells . he symbols in

a card’s upper right corner tell you the

cost to cast that spell. If the mana cost

reads o 4 o R o R , you pay four mana of

any kinds plus two red mana (from a

Mountain) to cast it.

TYPE LINE

his tells you the card’s card type: artifact,

creature, enchantment, instant, land,

planeswalker, or sorcery. If the card has

a subtype or supertype , that’s also listed

here. For example, Shivan Dragon is a

creature, and its subtype is the creature

type Dragon.

Creature — Dragon

EXPANSION SYMBOL

his symbol tells you which Magic set

the card is from. his version of Shivan

Dragon is from Magic 2010 core set.

he color of the symbol tells you the

card’s rarity: black for common cards,

silver for uncommons, gold for rares,

and red-orange for mythic rares.

TEXT BOX

his is where a card’s abilities appear.

You may also ind lavor text printed in

italics (like this) that tells you something

about the Magic world. Flavor text has

no efect on game play. Some abilities

have italic reminder text to help explain

what they do.

Flying

o R : Shivan Dragon gets +1/+0 until

end of turn.

The undisputed master of the mountains

of Shiv.

Donato Giancola

5/5

POWER AND TOUGHNESS

Each creature card has a special box with its power

and toughness. A creature’s power (the irst number)

is how much damage it deals in combat. Its toughness

(the second number) is how much damage must be

dealt to it in a single turn to destroy it. (A planeswalker

card has a diferent special box with its loyalty here.)

COLLECTOR NUMBER

he collector number makes it easier

to organize your cards. For example,

“156/249” means that the card is the

156th of 249 cards in its set.

CARD TYPES

Lava Axe

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Every Magic card has one or more types. A card’s type tells you when you can play the

card and what happens to the card after you do.

Sorcery

SORCERY

A sorcery represents a magical incantation. You can cast a sorcery only during a main

phase of one of your own turns. You can’t cast it when another spell is on the stack.

(You’ll learn about phases and the stack in a bit.) A sorcery has its efect—in other

words, you follow the instructions on the card—then you put it into your graveyard,

which is the game term for your discard pile.

Lava Axe deals 5 damage to target

player.

“Catch!”

Brian Snoddy

SECTION 1: THE BASICS

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INSTANT

An instant is just like a sorcery, except you can cast it just about any time you want,

even during your opponent’s turn or in response to another spell. Like a sorcery, an

instant has its efect, then you put it into your graveyard.

Instant

ENCHANTMENT

An enchantment represents a stable magical manifestation. An enchantment is a

permanent . his means two things: You can cast one only at the time you could cast

a sorcery, and after you cast one, you’ll put it on the table in front of you, near your

lands. (Most players keep their lands closer to them, then put their other cards closer

to the middle of the table.) he card is now on the battleield . Any of your cards on

the battleield is called a permanent because it sticks around permanently (well, unless

something destroys it).

Counter target spell.

David Palumbo

Holy Strength

Some enchantments are Auras . An Aura enters the battleield attached to a permanent

and afects that permanent while it’s on the battleield. If the enchanted permanent

leaves the battleield, the Aura is put into its owner’s graveyard.

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature

Enchanted creature gets +1/+2.

“Born under the sun, the first child will

seek the foundation of honor and be

fortified by its righteousness.”

—Codex of the Constellari

ARTIFACT

An artifact represents a magical relic. Like an enchantment, an artifact is a permanent,

so it’ll stay on the battleield afecting the game. Most artifacts are colorless, so you can

cast one no matter what kinds of lands you have.

Terese Nielsen

Whispersilk Cloak

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Some artifacts are Equipment . You can pay to attach an Equipment to a creature you

control to make that creature more powerful. If an equipped creature leaves the battleield,

the Equipment doesn’t—the creature drops it and it remains on the battleield.

Artifact — Equipment

CREATURE

Creatures ight for you. hey’re permanents, but unlike any other kind of permanent,

creatures can attack and block . Each creature has power and toughness . Its power (the irst

number) is how much damage it deals in combat. Its toughness (the second number)

is how much damage must be dealt to it in a single turn to destroy it. Creatures attack

and block during the combat phase .

Equipped creature is unblockable.

Equipped creature has shroud. (It can’t

be the target of spells or abilities.)

Equip o 2 ( o 2 : Attach to target creature

you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Daren Bader

Craw Wurm

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Unlike other types of permanents, creatures enter the battleield with “summoning

sickness”: a creature can’t attack, or use an ability that has o T in its cost, until it has

started your turn on the battleield under your control. You can block with a creature

or activate its other abilities no matter how long it’s been on the battleield.

Creature — Wurm

Artifact creatures are both artifacts and creatures. hey’re usually colorless like other

artifacts, and they can attack and block like other creatures. An artifact creature can be

afected by anything that afects artifacts, as well as anything that afects creatures.

The most terrifying thing about the craw

wurm is probably the horrible crashing

sound it makes as it speeds through

the forest. This noise is so loud it echoes

through the trees and seems to come from

all directions at once.

Richard Sardinha

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SECTION 1: THE BASICS

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