801. Limited Range of Influence Option
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- 801.1 Limited Range of Influence Option Limited range of influence is an option that can be applied to most multiplayer games. It’s always used in the Emperor variant (see rule 809), and it’s often used for games…
- 801.2 Limited Range of Influence Option A player’s range of influence is the maximum distance from that player, measured in player seats, that the player can affect. Players within that many seats of the player are…
- 801.3 Limited Range of Influence Option Creatures can attack only opponents within their controller’s range of influence, planeswalkers controlled by those opponents, and battles protected by those opponents. If no…
- 801.4 Limited Range of Influence Option Objects and players outside a player’s range of influence can’t be the targets of spells or abilities that player controls.
- 801.5 Limited Range of Influence Option Some cards require players to make choices. These cards work differently when the limited range of influence option is used.
- 801.6 Limited Range of Influence Option A player can’t activate the activated abilities of an object outside of their range of influence.
- 801.7 Limited Range of Influence Option A triggered ability doesn’t trigger unless its trigger event happens entirely within the range of influence of its source’s controller.
- 801.8 Limited Range of Influence Option An Aura can’t enchant an object or player outside its controller’s range of influence. If an Aura is attached to an illegal object or player, the Aura is put into its owner’s…
- 801.9 Limited Range of Influence Option An Equipment can’t equip an object outside its controller’s range of influence, and a Fortification can’t fortify an object outside its controller’s range of influence. If an…
- 801.10 Limited Range of Influence Option Spells and abilities can’t affect objects or players outside their controller’s range of influence. The parts of the effect that attempt to affect an out-of-range object or player…
- 801.11 Limited Range of Influence Option If a spell or ability requires information from the game, it gets only information from within its controller’s range of influence. It doesn’t see objects or events outside its…
- 801.12 Limited Range of Influence Option The “world rule” (see rule 704.5k) applies to a permanent only if other world permanents are within its controller’s range of influence.
- 801.13 Limited Range of Influence Option Replacement and prevention effects watch for a particular event to happen and then completely or partially replace that event. The limited range of influence option can cause the…
- 801.14 Limited Range of Influence Option If an effect states that a player wins the game, all of that player’s opponents within that player’s range of influence lose the game instead.
- 801.15 Limited Range of Influence Option If the effect of a spell or ability states that the game is a draw, the game is a draw for that spell or ability’s controller and all players within that player’s range of…
- 801.16 Limited Range of Influence Option If the game somehow enters a “loop” of mandatory actions, repeating a sequence of events with no way to stop, the game is a draw for each player who controls an object that’s…
- 801.17 Limited Range of Influence Option Effects that restart the game (see rule 727) are exempt from the limited range of influence option. All players in the game will be involved in the new game.
- 801.18 Limited Range of Influence Option In multiplayer Planechase games other than Grand Melee games, plane cards and phenomenon cards are exempt from the limited range of influence option. Their abilities, and the…