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Each player’s maximum hand size is normally seven cards, though effects may modify this. As the first part of the active player’s cleanup step, if he or she has too many cards in his or her hand, that player chooses and discards as many cards as needed to reduce his or her hand to its maximum size (but no more than that). See rule 314, “Cleanup Step.”
A spell or ability is modal if it is written “choose one -” or “[a specified player] chooses one -.” Modal spells and abilities offer a choice of effects. A modal spell or ability’s controller must choose the mode as part of playing the spell or ability or as part of putting the ability on the stack (in the case of triggered abilities); see rule 409.1b. A modal replacement effect’s mode is chosen as it’s applied; see rule 419.6g.
Modular represents both a static ability and a triggered ability. “Modular N” means “This permanent comes into play with N +1/+1 counters on it” and “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from play, you may put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact creature for each +1/+1 counter on this permanent.” See rule 502.35, “Modular.”
Some older cards used the term “mono artifact” on the card’s type line. They were artifacts that had activated abilities that included the tap symbol. Cards that were printed with the term “mono artifact” now simply use “artifact.”
A monocolored card has exactly one color. A colorless card isn’t monocolored.
Morph is a static ability that functions any time you could play the card it’s on, and the morph effect works any time the card is face down. “Morph [cost]” means “You may play this card as a 2/2 face-down creature, with no text, no name, no subtypes, no expansion symbol, and no mana cost by paying {3} rather than its mana cost.” Any time you could play an instant, you may show all players the morph cost for any face-down permanent you control, pay that cost, then turn the permanent face up. This action doesn’t use the stack. See rule 502.26, “Morph.”
“Mountain” is one of the five basic land types. Any land with the land type Mountain has the ability “{T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.” See rule 212.6d.
See Landcycling.
See Landwalk.
To move a counter means to take it from where it currently is and put it onto another object. If the object the counter would move from has no counters, or either that object or any possible objects the counter would move onto are no longer in the correct zone when the effect would move the counter, nothing happens.
Some older cards used “move” to describe taking an Aura on one permanent and putting it onto another. These cards now say “attach.”
A player can “mulligan” by shuffling his or her hand back into his or her library and drawing a new hand with one fewer card before taking the first turn. Any player dissatisfied with his or her starting hand may mulligan as often as he or she wishes, drawing one fewer card each time. See rule 101.4.
The Two-Headed Giant variant uses a modified mulligan rule; see rule 606.6a.
A multicolored card has two or more colors. Most multicolored cards are printed with gold frames to reinforce this. See rule 203.2.
A multicolored object is affected by anything that singles out any of its colors. For example, a black-and- green creature is destroyed by a spell that reads, “Destroy all green creatures.” Something that can’t affect a particular color doesn’t affect a multicolored object with that color, so that same creature can’t be targeted by a spell or ability that reads, “Destroy target nonblack creature.”
A multiplayer game is a game that begins with more than two players. Games that begin with only two players aren’t multiplayer games. See section 6, “Multiplayer Rules.”
The name of a card is printed on its upper left corner. See rule 202, “Name.”
Ninjutsu is an activated ability that functions only while the card with ninjutsu is in a player’s hand. “Ninjutsu [cost]” means “[Cost], Reveal this card from your hand, Return an unblocked creature you control to its owner’s hand: Put this card into play from your hand tapped and attacking.” See rule 502.43, “Ninjutsu.”
Any land that doesn’t have the supertype “basic” is nonbasic. Use the Oracle card reference to determine whether a land has the supertype “basic.”
