General Rulings - G13

• G13.1a - A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card he or she discards. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 702.32, "Madness."

• G13.2a - The game in which a spell (or ability) that created a subgame was cast (or activated). [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 712, "Subgames."

• G13.3a - Part of the turn. The first, or precombat, main phase is the second phase of the turn. The second, or postcombat, main phase is the fourth phase of the turn. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 505, "Main Phase."

• G13.4a - The primary resource in the game. It is spent to pay costs, usually when casting spells and activating abilities. See Rule 106, "Mana," Rule 107.4, and Rule 202, "Mana Cost and Color." [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.5a - An activated or triggered ability that could create mana and doesn't use the stack. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 605, "Mana Abilities."

• G13.6a - Older versions of the rules stated that unspent mana caused a player to lose life; this was called "mana burn." That rule no longer exists. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.7a - A characteristic, and part of a card. A card's mana cost is indicated by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. See Rule 107.4 and Rule 202, "Mana Cost and Color." [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.8a - Where mana created by an effect is temporarily stored. See Rule 106.4. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.9a - An obsolete card type. All cards printed with this card type are now instants. All abilities that, as printed, said a player could "play as a mana source" are now mana abilities. All relevant cards have been given errata in the Oracle card reference. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.10a - An icon that represents mana or a mana cost. See Rule 107.4. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.11a - A multiplayer game or a two-player series of games (usually best-two-of-three) played in a tournament. See Rule 100.6. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.12a - The number of cards in hand a player must discard down to during his or her cleanup step. See Rule 402.2 and Rule 514.1. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.13a - A spell or ability is "modal" if it has two or more options preceded by "Choose one --," "Choose two --," "Choose one or both --," or "<-a specified player-> chooses one --." Each option is a "mode." See Rule 700.2. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.14a - A keyword ability that has a permanent enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters on it and can move those counters to other artifact creatures. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 702.40, "Modular."

• G13.15a - An obsolete term that appeared on the type line of artifacts with activated abilities that caused the artifact to become tapped as a cost. Cards printed with this text have received errata in the Oracle card reference to simply say "Artifact," and those abilities now include the tap symbol in their costs. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.16a - An object with exactly one color is monocolored. Colorless objects aren't monocolored. See Rule 105, "Colors," and Rule 202, "Mana Cost and Color." [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• Note - See Hybrid Mana Symbols.

• G13.18a - A keyword ability that lets a card be cast face down as a 2/2 creature. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• Note - See Rule 702.34, "Morph."
• Note - See Rule 707, "Face-Down Spells and Permanents."

• G13.19a - One of the five basic land types. Any land with this subtype has the ability "{Tap}: Add {R} to your mana pool." See Rule 305.6. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• Note - See Rule G20.35, "Typecycling."

• Note - See Rule G12.3, "Landwalk."

• G13.22a - To remove a counter from one object and put it on a different object. See Rule 120.4. [CompRules 2009/07/08]
• G13.22b - Some older cards used "move" with respect to Auras; those cards have received errata in the Oracle card reference and now use the word "attach." [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.23a - To take a "mulligan" is to reject a prospective opening hand and draw a new one (usually with one fewer card). See Rule 103.4. [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.24a - An object with two or more colors is multicolored. Multicolored is not a color. See Rule 105, "Colors," and Rule 202, "Mana Cost and Color." [CompRules 2009/07/08]

• G13.25a - A game that begins with more than two players. See section 8, "Multiplayer Rules." [CompRules 2009/07/08]