Rule 500.5 · General

As a step or phase ends, if there are effects that last until the end of that step or phase, those effects expire. Then any unspent mana left in a player’s mana pool empties. This is a turn-based action that doesn’t use the stack (see rule 703.4q).

Subrules

Effects that last “until end of combat” expire at the end of the combat phase, not at the beginning of the end of combat step.

Effects that last “until end of turn” are subject to special rules; see rule 514.2.

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