Preparation cards have a two-part card frame, with a smaller frame inset within their text box.
July 25, 2025 · Edge of Eternities
Some cards allow a player to control another player during that player’s next turn. This effect applies to the next turn that the affected player actually takes. The affected player is controlled during the entire turn; the effect doesn’t end until the beginning of the next turn.
April 4, 2025 · Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Some cards end the turn. When an effect ends the turn, follow these steps in order, as they differ from the normal process for resolving spells and abilities (see rule 608, “Resolving Spells and Abilities”).
February 2, 2024 · Murders at Karlov Manor
The monarch is a designation a player can have. There is no monarch in a game until an effect instructs a player to become the monarch.
April 14, 2023 · March of the Machine
The initiative is a designation a player can have. There is no initiative in a game until an effect instructs a player to take the initiative. A player who currently has the initiative designation is said to have the initiative.
November 18, 2022 · The Brothers’ War
The monarch is a designation a player can have. There is no monarch in a game until an effect instructs a player to become the monarch.
October 7, 2022 · Unfinity
The initiative is a designation a player can have. There is no initiative in a game until an effect instructs a player to take the initiative. A player who currently has the initiative designation is said to have the initiative.
June 10, 2022 · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate
One card (Karn Liberated) restarts the game. A game that is restarted immediately ends. No players in that game win, lose, or draw that game. All players in that game when it ended then start a new game following the procedures set forth in rule 103, “Starting the Game,” with the following exception:
July 23, 2021 · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms
One card (Shahrazad) allows players to play a Magic subgame.
April 17, 2020 · Ikoria
When playing a game, players typically make use of mutually understood shortcuts rather than explicitly identifying each game choice (either taking an action or passing priority) a player makes.
October 4, 2019 · Throne of Eldraine
If a player takes an illegal action or starts to take an action but can’t legally complete it, the entire action is reversed and any payments already made are canceled. No abilities trigger and no effects apply as a result of an undone action. If the action was casting a spell, the spell returns to the zone it came from. Each player may also reverse any legal mana abilities that player activated while making the illegal play, unless mana from those abilities or from any triggered mana abilities they caused to trigger was spent on another mana ability that wasn’t reversed. Players may not reverse actions that moved cards to a library, moved cards from a library to any zone other than the stack, caused a library to be shuffled, or caused cards from a library to be revealed.