314. Schemes

Rules in this chapter

• 314.1 Schemes Scheme is a card type seen only on nontraditional Magic cards. Only the Archenemy casual variant uses scheme cards. See rule 904, “Archenemy.”
• 314.2 Schemes Scheme cards remain in the command zone throughout the game, both while they’re part of a scheme deck and while they’re face up. They’re not permanents. They can’t be cast. If a…
• 314.3 Schemes Scheme cards have no subtypes.
• 314.4 Schemes A scheme card may have any number of static, triggered, and/or activated abilities. As long as a scheme card is face up in the command zone, its static abilities affect the game…
• 314.5 Schemes The owner of a scheme card is the player who started the game with it in the command zone. The controller of a face-up scheme card is its owner.
• 314.6 Schemes If a non-ongoing scheme card is face up in the command zone, and no triggered abilities of any scheme are on the stack or waiting to be put on the stack, that scheme card is…
• 314.7 Schemes If an ability of a scheme card includes the text “this scheme,” it means the scheme card in the command zone that’s the source of that ability. This is an exception to rule 109.2.