While controlling another player, a player makes all choices and decisions the controlled player is allowed to make or is told to make by the rules or by any objects. This includes choices and decisions about what to play, and choices and decisions called for by spells and abilities.
July 25, 2025 · Edge of Eternities
rule 723.5 not present in this release
April 4, 2025 · Tarkir: Dragonstorm
If the result of a continuous effect generated by a static ability is determined based on who is currently the monarch, but there is no monarch in the game as that effect begins to apply, that effect does nothing until a player becomes the monarch. See rule 613, “Continuous Effects.”
February 2, 2024 · Murders at Karlov Manor
If the player who currently has the initiative is instructed to take the initiative, this causes the last triggered ability in 723.2 to trigger but does not create a second initiative designation.
April 14, 2023 · March of the Machine
Effects may exempt certain cards from the procedure that restarts the game. These cards are not in their owner’s deck as the new game begins.
November 18, 2022 · The Brothers’ War
If the player who currently has the initiative is instructed to take the initiative, this causes the last triggered ability in 723.2 to trigger but does not create a second initiative designation.
October 7, 2022 · Unfinity
Effects may exempt certain cards from the procedure that restarts the game. These cards are not in their owner’s deck as the new game begins.
June 10, 2022 · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate
At the end of a subgame, each player takes all cards they own that are in the subgame other than those in the subgame command zone, puts them into their main-game library, then shuffles them. This includes cards in the subgame’s exile zone. Except as specified in rules 723.5a–d, all other objects in the subgame cease to exist, as do the zones created for the subgame. The main game continues from the point at which it was discontinued: First, the spell or ability that created the subgame finishes resolving, even if it was created by a spell card that’s no longer on the stack. Then, if any main-game abilities triggered while the subgame was in progress due to cards being removed from the main game, those abilities are put onto the stack.