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Quick Start Guide

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Welcome to Magic: The Gathering®, the world’s
premier trading card game. You’re about to
discover why millions around the world play
Magic™: its deep strategy, its beautiful worlds and
strong characters, and its worldwide community.
If you already own some Magic cards, get them
out now. Those cards represent the tools
you’ll use to defeat your opponents. You’ll
summon fearsome creatures, wield
mystical items and incantations, and
cast wondrous magical spells. The
cards are your game pieces, and you
can put them together in countless
combinations.
There are thousands of cards to
choose from, so where do you get
started? Each player needs a deck of
at least 60 cards, and an intro pack
is a great way to get one. Intro packs
give you everything you need to
start playing: a ready-to-play 60-card
deck filled with creatures, lands, and
other spells. You also get two 15-card
booster packs, giving you more cards
to make your deck your own.

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Basic Land — Swamp

Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
Basic Land — Plains
battlefield, you gain 3 life.
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+1/+1 counter on Ajani’s Pridemate.

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the battlefield, target creature gets
Whenever you cast a white spell or a

“When one of us prospers, the pride

hand of seven cards and check to see
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Creature — Kithkin Soldier

+1/+1 until end of turn.

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that share a color with it.) addition to its other types.
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with 20 life, and you’ll each need a

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overcome if not for the aid of the temple

guardians whom Karametra awakened.
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Your deck includes lands and creatures, and it may also include sorceries, instants, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers! On the next few pages, we’ll take a look at what the
different types of cards are and how to use them.

Lands
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Land cards are the foundation of any successful Magic deck.
Lands provide mana, the magical energy you need to cast all
the other cards in your deck. You can play one land during your
main phase on each of your turns. Lands stay on the battlefield
in front of you. Your lands untap (reset) at the start of each of
your turns so that you can use them again.
There are five types of basic land, each one corresponding
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Basic Land — For to one of the five colors of magic. Each color of magic has
different strengths and capabilities. You’ll get to know the
colors as you play more.
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Every card that isn’t a land can be cast as a spell. Some types of spells are put
onto the battlefield and become “permanents.” Other types of spells have their
effect and then go to your graveyard (discard pile).
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— Dragon
Creature When you want to pay a mana cost, tap (turn sideways) the necessary
lands on the battlefield. This shows that you’ve used those lands to
produce mana. Tapped cards untap at the beginning of each of your
turns, so they’ll be ready to use again. You can tap two Mountains, which
produce red mana, and four other lands to cast Shivan Dragon. Those four
lands could be Mountains, Forests, or any other combination of lands.
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cast them.

Each Magic set has a unique

symbol. The color of the symbol
tells you the card’s rarity: black for
common, silver for uncommon,
gold for rare, or orange-red for
mythic rare.

Creature — Dragon A card’s abilities appear in its

text box. Some abilities have
Flying (This creature can’t be blocked
except by creatures with flying or reach.) reminder text in parentheses to
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end of turn. may also have flavor text printed
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Creatures have two numbers in

This tells you the card’s type, such the lower right corner. The first
as creature or land. Each creature number is power, which tells you
also has one or more creature how much damage the creature
types, found after a long dash, that deals in combat. The second
tell you what kind of creature it is. number is toughness. If a creature
is dealt that much damage or more
in a single turn, the creature is
destroyed and put into its owner’s
graveyard (discard pile).

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Combat
You win the game by reducing your opponent’s life total to 0. The most common way
to do that is to attack your opponent with creatures during combat.

Attacking and Blocking

During your turn, you decide which of your creatures, if any, will attack. You can’t attack with a
creature if it’s tapped or if it entered the battlefield this turn. You have one combat phase in the
middle of your turn, and all the creatures you decide to attack with attack at the same time.
Once you’ve decided which of your creatures are attacking, tap those creatures. Your tapped
creatures, like your tapped lands, will untap at the beginning of your next turn.
Most of the time, your creatures will attack your opponent. Sometimes they can also attack
planeswalkers. But creatures never attack other creatures. You just send them across the
battlefield, and your opponent decides what happens next.
Now imagine you’re on the other side of the battlefield. Your opponent has attacked you with
some of his or her creatures. If you control any untapped creatures, you can use those creatures
to block. Blocking doesn’t cause creatures to become tapped. Each blocking creature can block
one attacking creature. You can also have multiple creatures block the same attacking creature.
In that case, the attacking player decides how much damage the attacking creature deals to each
of the blockers in turn.

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Unblocked attacking creatures deal damage to the

opponent equal to their power. In this case, those
Defending Player creatures will deal a total of 6 damage to you, which
means you lose 6 life. You might choose not to block
if your life total is high and you want to save your
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deals 2 damage to you. You didn’t destroy any of your

Defending Player opponent’s creatures, but you might block this way if
your life total was low.

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Creature — Devil

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 Glossary

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oT—This symbol means “tap this card.” It appears damage at least equal to their toughness in a
only as a cost to activate an ability. single turn are destroyed. Spells and abilities can
+1/+1—A bonus applied to a creature giving also destroy permanents.
+1 to its power and +1 to its toughness. dies—Another way to say a creature has been
The numbers can be any value, including put into a graveyard from the battlefield.
negative numbers. discard—To discard a card, choose a card from
cast—You cast a spell by paying its mana cost your hand and put it into your graveyard.
and putting it onto the stack. See “Casting double strike—A creature with double strike
Spells” on page 6. deals damage twice each combat: once before
control—You control the creatures and other creatures without first strike or double strike, and
permanents that you have on the battlefield, then again when creatures normally deal damage.
unless your opponent uses a spell or ability to draw a card—To draw a card, take the top card
gain control of one of your permanents. In that of your library and put it into your hand.
case, your opponent can use it and you can’t.
When it leaves the battlefield or the game ends, enchant—An Aura is an enchantment that
it’s returned to you. enchants (attaches to) another card on the
battlefield. For example, you can cast an Aura
counter a spell—If a card counters a spell, you with “enchant creature” to attach it to any
can cast it in response to a spell your opponent creature on the battlefield. If that creature leaves
is casting. The countered spell has no effect, and the battlefield, the Aura is put into the graveyard.
it’s put into the graveyard.
equip—If you have an Equipment card on the
counter on a card—Sometimes counters are put battlefield, you can pay its equip cost to attach
on a card to keep track of something. Many are it to one of your creatures on the battlefield. If
+1/+1 counters, which each give a creature +1 the equipped creature leaves the battlefield, the
power and +1 toughness. You can use any small Equipment card stays.
item to represent counters.
exile—If an ability exiles a card, it’s removed
damage—Creatures deal damage equal to from the battlefield and set aside. An exiled
their power during combat. Spells can also deal card isn’t a permanent (because it’s not on the
damage to creatures and players. Damage dealt battlefield) and isn’t in the graveyard. A card
to a player causes that player to lose that much stays in exile until the game ends or until the
life. Creatures that are dealt damage equal to or card is moved to a different game zone.
greater than their toughness in a single turn are
destroyed. Damaged creatures on the battlefield fight—When two creatures fight, each deals
heal at the end of each turn. damage equal to its power to the other. This is
different from creatures dealing damage
deathtouch—A creature dealt damage by a in combat.
creature with deathtouch is destroyed.
first strike—A creature with first strike deals its
defender—A creature with defender can’t attack. damage in combat before creatures without
destroy—A permanent that’s destroyed is put first strike or double strike.
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flash—You may cast a spell with flash any time draw a new hand with one fewer card. You can
you could cast an instant, even in response to take as many mulligans as you like, but your
other spells. starting hand gets smaller each time. Usually
flying—A creature with flying can be blocked players take mulligans because they don’t have
only by other creatures with flying and creatures enough land cards, or because they have too
with reach. many lands and not enough spells.
haste—A creature with haste can attack and you next time, next damage—Sometimes an ability
can activate its oT abilities as soon as it comes refers to the “next time” something happens
under your control. or the “next damage” that a creature or player
would be dealt. Remember that an instant or
hexproof—A creature with hexproof can’t be ability used in response to something happens
the target of spells or abilities your opponents first.
control, including Aura spells. Your spells and
abilities can still target it. permanent—Lands, creatures, artifacts,
enchantments, and planeswalkers are
indestructible—An indestructible permanent permanents. They enter the battlefield after you
can’t be destroyed by damage or by effects that cast them. Token creatures are also permanents.
say “destroy.” It can still be sacrificed or exiled. Instants and sorceries are not permanents. They
If an effect reduces an indestructible creature’s go to the graveyard after they resolve.
toughness to 0 or less, it’s still put into its
owner’s graveyard. protection—A creature with protection from a
color can’t be blocked, dealt damage, enchanted,
intimidate—A creature with intimidate can’t or targeted by anything of that color.
be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or
creatures that share a color with it. reach—A creature with reach can block
creatures with flying (and creatures without
lifelink—If a creature with lifelink deals damage, flying).
its controller also gains that much life.
regenerate—Regenerating a creature keeps
mana—This is the energy you get from your it from being destroyed. Instead of being
lands that you use to cast spells. Mana can be destroyed, the creature gets tapped, it’s removed
white (oW), blue (oU), black (oB), red (oR), green from combat (if it’s in combat), and all its
(oG), and sometimes even colorless (o1). damage is healed.
mana pool—This is where mana goes after sacrifice —Sometimes a card tells you to
you tap your lands for it and before you spend sacrifice a creature or some other permanent.
it. Some abilities tell you to add mana to your To sacrifice a permanent, you move it from
mana pool. These abilities give you mana like the battlefield to your graveyard. You can’t
the mana you get from tapping lands. Mana regenerate it or save it in any way. You can
can’t be saved from turn to turn. sacrifice only your own permanents.
mulligan—At the start of the game, if you tap—To tap a card is to turn it sideways. You do
don’t like your hand, you can take a mulligan. this when you use a land to make mana, when
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an ability that has the oT symbol as part of its X, oX—Some spells and abilities have effects
cost. You can’t tap a permanent again until it’s that change depending on how much mana
been untapped. At the beginning of each of your you use to pay for them. For example, Heat Ray
turns, you untap your tapped cards so you can is an instant spell that costs oXoR and deals X
use them again. damage. If you paid o3oR to cast it, it would deal
target—If a spell uses the word “target,” you 3 damage. If you paid o6oR to cast it, it would
choose what the spell will affect when you cast deal 6 damage.
it. The same is true for abilities you activate.
token—Some cards create token creatures. You
can use token cards from booster packs, glass
beads, dice, or anything else to represent them.
trample—If a creature with trample would
assign enough damage to its blockers to
destroy them, you may have it assign the rest
of its damage to the player or planeswalker it’s
attacking.
untap—Untap a tapped card by turning it right
side up. When you untap your permanents at
the beginning of your turn, it means that you
can use (tap) them again.
vigilance—A creature with vigilance doesn’t
tap to attack. (Vigilance doesn’t allow a tapped
creature or a creature that entered the battlefield
this turn to attack, though.)

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 Parts of a Turn
Beginning Phase
∙ Untap step—Turn all your tapped cards upright again.
∙ Upkeep step
∙ Draw step—Draw a card from your library (deck).
Main Phase
You may play one land from your hand by putting it onto
the battlefield (table). You may cast creatures, sorceries, and
other spells if you can pay for them.

Combat Phase
∙ Beginning of combat step
∙ Declare attackers step—Tap every creature you want to
attack your opponent with. (A creature can’t attack the turn
you cast it unless it has haste.)
∙ Declare blockers step—Each untapped defending creature
may block one attacker. Creatures don’t have to block.
∙
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Combat damage step—Blockers and the attackers they’re

blocking deal damage to each other equal to their power,
the first number in the lower right corner. If a creature
takes damage at least equal to the second number,
toughness, it’s destroyed. Unblocked attackers deal damage
to your opponent, who loses that much life.
∙ End of combat step
Main Phase (Again)
You may play a land if you haven’t played one yet.
You may cast spells.

Ending Phase
∙ End step
∙ Cleanup step—Damaged creatures on the battlefield heal.