Magic: The Gathering glossary
The Comprehensive Rules glossary, with each definition and the rules it cites.
- Abandon
- Ability
- Ability Word
- Absorb
- Activate
- Activated Ability
- Activation Cost
- Active Player
- Active Player, Nonactive Player Order
- Active Team
- Adapt
- Additional Cost
- Adventurer Card
- Affinity
- Afflict
- Afterlife
- Aftermath
- Airbend
- Alternate Name
- Alternating Teams Variant
- Alternative Cost
- Amass
- Amplify
- Anchor Word
- Annihilator
- Ante
- Any Target
- APNAP Order
- Archenemy
- Archenemy Commander
- Artifact
- Artifact Creature
- Artifact Land
- Artifact Type
- As Though
- Ascend
- Assemble
- Assign Combat Damage
- Assist
- At End of Turn (Obsolete)
- Attach
- Attack
- Attack Alone
- Attack Left Option
- Attack Multiple Players Option
- Attack Right Option
- Attacking Creature
- Attacking Team
- Attacks and Isn’t Blocked
- Attraction
- Attraction Deck
- Aura
- Aura Swap
- Awaken
- Background
- Backup
- Banding, “Bands with Other”
- Bargain
- Base Power, Base Toughness
- Basic
- Basic Land Type
- Basic Landcycling
- Battle
- Battle Cry
- Battlefield
- Becomes
- Beginning of Combat Step
- Beginning Phase
- Behold
- Bestow
- Blight
- Blitz
- Block
- Block Alone
- Blocked Creature
- Blocking Creature
- Blood Token
- Bloodthirst
- Boast
- Bolster
- Booster Pack
- Brawl
- Bury (Obsolete)
- Bushido
- Buyback
- Card
- Card Pool
- Card Type
- Cascade
- Case
- Cast
- Caster (Obsolete)
- Casting Cost (Obsolete)
- Casualty
- Champion, Championed
- Change a Target
- Changeling
- Chaos Ability
- Chaos Symbol
- Characteristic-Defining Ability
- Characteristics
- Choose a Background
- Cipher
- City’s Blessing
- Clash
- Class
- Cleanup Step
- Cleave
- Cloak
- Clue Token
- Collect Evidence
- Collector Number
- Color
- Color Identity
- Color Indicator
- Colorless
- Combat Damage
- Combat Damage Step
- Combat Phase
- Command
- Commander
- Commander Draft
- Commander Ninjutsu
- Commander Tax
- Companion
- Compleated
- Complete a Dungeon
- Concede
- Connive
- Conspiracy
- Conspiracy Draft
- Conspire
- Constructed
- Continuous Artifact (Obsolete)
- Continuous Effect
- Control Another Player
- Control, Controller
- Convert
- Converted Mana Cost (Obsolete)
- Convoke
- Copiable Values
- Copy
- Cost
- Counter
- Counts As (Obsolete)
- Craft
- Create
- Creature
- Creature Type
- Crew
- Crime
- Cumulative Upkeep
- Cycling
- Damage
- Damage Assignment Order (Obsolete)
- Dash
- Day
- Daybound
- Deal
- Deathtouch
- Decayed
- Deck
- Declare Attackers
- Declare Attackers Step
- Declare Blockers
- Declare Blockers Step
- Defender
- Defending Player
- Defending Team
- Defense
- Delayed Triggered Ability
- Delve
- Demonstrate
- Dependency
- Deploy Creatures Option
- Destroy
- Detain
- Dethrone
- Devoid
- Devotion
- Devour
- Dies
- Discard
- Discover
- Disguise
- Disturb
- Doctor’s Companion
- Door
- Double
- Double Agenda
- Double Strike
- Double-Faced Cards
- Draft
- Draft Round
- Draw
- Draw Step
- Dredge
- Dungeon
- During (Obsolete)
- Earthbend
- Echo
- EDH (Obsolete)
- Effect
- Embalm
- Emblem
- Emerge
- Emperor
- Emperor Variant
- Empower Jace
- Enchant
- Enchantment
- Enchantment Type
- Encoded
- Encore
- Encounter
- End of Combat Step
- End Step
- End the Combat Phase
- End the Turn
- Ending Phase
- Endure
- Enduring Story
- Energy Symbol
- Enlist
- Enter
- Enters the Battlefield
- Entwine
- Epic
- Equip
- Equipment
- Escalate
- Escape
- Eternalize
- Evasion Ability
- Event
- Evoke
- Evolve
- Exalted
- Excess Damage
- Exchange
- Exert
- Exhaust
- Exile
- Expansion Symbol
- Expend
- Exploit
- Explore
- Extort
- Extra Turn
- Fabricate
- Face a Villainous Choice
- Face Down
- Face Up
- Fading
- Fateseal
- Fear
- Fight
- Finality Counter
- Firebending
- First Strike
- Flanking
- Flash
- Flashback
- Flavor Text
- Flavor Word
- Flip Cards
- Flipped
- Flipping a Coin
- Flying
- Food Token
- For Mirrodin!
- Forage
- Forecast
- Forest
- Forestcycling
- Forestwalk
- Foretell
- Foretold
- Fortification
- Fortify
- Free-for-All
- Freerunning
- Frenzy
- Full Party
- Fuse
- Fused Split Spell
- General
- Generic Mana
- Gift
- Global Enchantment (Obsolete)
- Goad
- Goaded
- Gold Token
- Graft
- Grand Melee
- Gravestorm
- Graveyard
- Hand
- Hand Modifier
- Harmonize
- Harness
- Harnessed
- Haste
- Haunt
- Heal
- Heartwood Token
- Hexproof
- Hidden Agenda
- Hidden Zone
- Hideaway
- Historic
- Hone Counter
- Horsemanship
- Hybrid Card
- Hybrid Mana Symbols
- Hybrid Phyrexian Mana Symbols
- If
- Illegal Action
- Illegal Target
- Illustration
- Illustration Credit
- Impending
- Imprint
- Improvise
- In Play (Obsolete)
- In Response To
- Increment
- Incubate
- Incubator Token
- Independent
- Indestructible
- Infect
- Infinity
- Ingest
- Initiative
- Instant
- Instead
- Interrupt (Obsolete)
- Intervening “If” Clause
- Intimidate
- Investigate
- Island
- Islandcycling
- Islandhome (Obsolete)
- Islandwalk
- Job Select
- Jump-Start
- Junk Token
- Keyword Ability
- Keyword Action
- Keyword Counter
- Kicker, Kicked
- Kindred
- Land
- Land Type
- Lander Token
- Landwalk
- Last Known Information
- Layer
- Learn
- Leaves the Battlefield
- Legal Text
- Legend (Obsolete)
- Legend Rule
- Legendary
- Lethal Damage
- Level
- Level Symbol
- Level Up
- Leveler Cards
- Library
- Life Modifier
- Life, Life Total
- Lifelink
- Limited
- Limited Range of Influence
- Linked Abilities
- Living Metal
- Living Weapon
- Local Enchantment (Obsolete)
- Lock
- Locked
- London Mulligan
- Loop
- Lose the Game
- Loyalty
- Loyalty Ability
- Madness
- Main Game
- Main Phase
- Mana
- Mana Ability
- Mana Burn (Obsolete)
- Mana Cost
- Mana Pool
- Mana Source (Obsolete)
- Mana Symbol
- Mana Value
- Manifest
- Manifest Dread
- Map
- Match
- Max Speed
- Maximum Hand Size
- Mayhem
- Megamorph
- Meld
- Meld Cards
- Melee
- Menace
- Mentor
- Merged Permanent
- Mill
- Minimum Deck Size
- Miracle
- Mobilize
- Modal Double-Faced Cards
- Modal, Mode
- Modified
- Modular
- Monarch
- Mono Artifact (Obsolete)
- Monocolored
- Monocolored Hybrid Mana Symbols
- Monstrosity
- Monstrous
- More Than Meets the Eye
- Morph
- Mountain
- Mountaincycling
- Mountainwalk
- Move
- Mulligan
- Multicolored
- Multikicker
- Multiplayer Game
- Mutate
- Mutating Creature Spell
- Myriad
- Name
- Night
- Nightbound
- Ninjutsu
- Nonbasic Land
- Nonmodal Double-Faced Card
- Nontraditional Magic Card
- Object
- Offering
- Offspring
- Omen Card
- One-Shot Effect
- Ongoing
- Opening Hand
- Opponent
- Option
- Oracle
- Outlast
- Outside the Game
- Overload
- Owner
- Paired
- Paradigm
- Partner, “Partner—[text],” “Partner with [name]”
- Party
- Pass
- Pass in Succession
- Pawprint Symbol
- Pay
- Permanent
- Permanent Card
- Permanent Spell
- Permanently (Obsolete)
- Persist
- Phase
- Phased In, Phased Out
- Phasing
- Phenomenon
- Phyrexian Mana Symbol
- Phyrexian Symbol
- Pile
- Placed
- Plains
- Plainscycling
- Plainswalk
- Planar Deck
- Planar Die
- Plane
- Planechase
- Planeswalk
- Planeswalker
- Planeswalker Symbol
- Planeswalker Type
- Planeswalker Uniqueness Rule (Obsolete)
- Play
- Player
- Plot
- Plotted
- Poison Counter
- Poisoned
- Poisonous
- Poly Artifact (Obsolete)
- Populate
- Postcombat Main Phase
- Power
- Power-up
- Powerstone Token
- Precombat Main Phase
- Preparation Card
- Prepare Spell
- Prepared
- Prevent
- Prevention Effect
- Priority
- Prize
- Proliferate
- Protect, Protector
- Protection
- Prototype
- Prototype Card
- Provoke
- Prowess
- Prowl
- Public Zone
- Rad Counter
- Rampage
- Range of Influence
- Ravenous
- Reach
- Read Ahead
- Rebound
- Reconfigure
- Recover
- Recruit
- Redirect (Obsolete)
- Redirection Effect
- Reflexive Triggered Ability
- Regenerate
- Reinforce
- Reminder Text
- Remove from Combat
- Remove from the Game, Removed, Removed-from-the-Game Zone (Obsolete)
- Renown
- Renowned
- Replacement Effect
- Replicate
- Requirement
- Resolve
- Respond
- Restart the Game
- Restriction
- Retrace
- Reveal
- Ring-bearer
- Riot
- Ripple
- Role
- Roll a d20
- Room
- Room Ability
- Rules Text
- Sacrifice
- Saddle
- Saddled
- Saga
- Scavenge
- Scheme
- Scheme Deck
- Scry
- Search
- Secondary Title Bar
- Set Aside (Obsolete)
- Set in Motion
- Shadow
- Shard Token
- Shared Life Total
- Shared Team Turns Option
- Shield Counter
- Shortcut
- Shroud
- Shuffle
- Sideboard
- Siege
- Silver-Bordered
- Skip
- Skulk
- Slivercycling
- Sneak
- Snow
- Snow Mana Symbol
- Snow-Covered (Obsolete)
- Solved
- Sorcery
- Soulbond
- Soulshift
- Source of an Ability
- Source of Damage
- Source of Mana
- Space Sculptor
- Special Action
- Spectacle
- Speed
- Spell
- Spell Ability
- Spell Type
- Splice
- Split Cards
- Split Second
- Spree
- Squad
- Stack
- Start Your Engines!
- Starting Deck
- Starting Hand Size
- Starting Life Total
- Starting Player
- Starting Team
- State Trigger
- State-Based Actions
- Static Ability
- Station
- Station Cards
- Status
- Step
- Sticker
- Sticker Kicker
- Sticker Sheet
- Storied
- Storm
- Stun Counter
- Subgame
- Substitute Card
- Subtype
- Successfully Cast (Obsolete)
- Summon (Obsolete)
- Summoning Sickness Rule
- Sunburst
- Supertype
- Supervillain Rumble
- Support
- Surge
- Surveil
- Suspend
- Swamp
- Swampcycling
- Swampwalk
- Tap
- Tap Symbol
- Tapped
- Target
- Team
- Team vs. Team Variant
- Teammate
- Teamwork
- Text Box
- Text-Changing Effect
- The Ring
- The Ring Tempts You
- Threshold
- Ticket Symbol
- Tiered
- Time Travel
- Timestamp Order
- Token
- Tombstone Icon
- Total Casting Cost (Obsolete)
- Total Cost
- Totem Armor (Obsolete)
- Toughness
- Tournament
- Tournament Rules
- Toxic
- Traditional Magic Card
- Training
- Trample
- Trample Over Planeswalkers
- Transfigure
- Transform
- Transforming Double-Faced Cards (Obsolete)
- Transmute
- Treasure Token
- Tribal (Obsolete)
- Tribute
- Trigger
- Trigger Condition
- Trigger Event
- Triggered Ability
- Triple
- Turn Markers
- Turn-Based Actions
- Two-Headed Giant Variant
- Type
- Type Icon
- Type Line
- Type-Changing Effect
- Typecycling
- Umbra Armor
- Unattach
- Unblockable (Obsolete)
- Unblocked Creature
- Undaunted
- Undying
- Unearth
- Unflipped
- Unleash
- Unless
- Unlock
- Unlocked
- Unprepared
- Untap
- Untap Step
- Untap Symbol
- Untapped
- Upkeep Step
- Vanguard
- Vanishing
- Variant
- Vehicle
- Venture into [Quality]
- Venture into the Dungeon
- Venture Marker
- Vibranium Token
- Vigilance
- Visit
- Vote
- Walker Token
- Wall
- Ward
- Warp
- Waterbend
- Web-slinging
- Win the Game
- Wither
- Wizardcycling
- World
- World Rule
- Worthy
- X
- Y
- You, Your
- Zone
- Zone-Change Triggers