Rule 400.4 · General

Cards with certain card types can’t enter certain zones.

If an instant or sorcery card would enter the battlefield, it remains in its previous zone.

If a conspiracy, phenomenon, plane, scheme, or vanguard card would leave the command zone, it remains in the command zone.

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