I've made over the years a Magic The Gathering document to remember and to learn everything there is to know about the card game. Document is up to date as of 2016-10-06
I've build the document as an image of the first "Rulebook" that MTG made online. The term Rulebook used by MTG is a little bit misleading as it was really meant to show how to play the game which is different than the Competition Rulebook which has all those technical terms.
Over the years Ive added more contents to that document, contents that I found interesting to know, that needed to be added because of all new mechanics and changes or keeping up to date what was already there.
Ive used high quality pictures and I didnt compress anything as I find this better visually and it lets the user zoom in and still be able to easily read the cards. This is why the document is as big as 200 Megs and is giving a hard time to Microsoft Word even though there arent any corruptions in the document.
The document offers now a backend on how the MTG Universe could work. WOTC has over the year release books and stories, background information on cards and rumors about details on the Multiverse of MTG.
Unfortunately, theyve left also lots of void as the game has always been base on the card game, not a Universe mechanics. From the usage of my own knowledge from reading books and searching the web for additional information, Ive made a mechanism on how I could see the MTG Multiverse work.
Here is what the table of contents looks like
Section 1: The Basics 5
1.1 Five Colors Mana 5
1.2 Parts Of A Card 6
1.3 Card Types 6
Supertype 7
Type and Subtype 8
The Other cards 12
1.4 Game Zones 13
Section 2: The Building Blocks 14
2.1 Making Mana 14
2.2 Spells 15
2.3 Abilities 17
2.4 Attacking And Blocking 18
Section 3: Playing A Game 20
3.1 Get A Deck 20
3.2 Get A Friend 20
3.3 Start The Game 20
3.4 Part Of The Turn 21
3.5 The Next Turn 22
3.6 The Ever-Changing Game 22
Section 4: The Golden Rule 23
4.1 Building Your Own Deck 23
4.2 Deck Archetypes 24
4.3 Choose Colors Wisely 26
4.4 Name Your Deck 28
Section 5: Different Ways To Play 29
5.1 Formats 29
5.2 Sanctioned Constructed 30
5.3 Sanctioned Limited 31
5.4 Sanctioned Multiplayer 32
5.5 Casual Constructed 33
5.6 Casual Limited 33
5.7 Casual Multiplayer 34
5.8 Casual Variant 35
5.9 Other Casual Formats 38
Section 6: Glossary 39
6.1 General 39
6.2 Ability Words 54
6.3 Keyword Abilities 60
6.4 Keyword Actions 85
Section 7: Sets 92
Section 8: The Storyline 97
8.1 Our Own Universe 97
8.2 The Multiverse 98
8.3 The Planets 105
Section 9: Banned And Restricted 115
Section 10: Questions? 119
Section 11: Rulebook Credit 120
Section 12: Notes 121
I've made over the years a Magic The Gathering document to remember and to learn everything there is to know about the card game. Document is up to date as of 2016-10-06
I've build the document as an image of the first "Rulebook" that MTG made online. The term Rulebook used by MTG is a little bit misleading as it was really meant to show how to play the game which is different than the Competition Rulebook which has all those technical terms.
Over the years Ive added more contents to that document, contents that I found interesting to know, that needed to be added because of all new mechanics and changes or keeping up to date what was already there.
Ive used high quality pictures and I didnt compress anything as I find this better visually and it lets the user zoom in and still be able to easily read the cards. This is why the document is as big as 200 Megs and is giving a hard time to Microsoft Word even though there arent any corruptions in the document.
The document offers now a backend on how the MTG Universe could work. WOTC has over the year release books and stories, background information on cards and rumors about details on the Multiverse of MTG.
Unfortunately, theyve left also lots of void as the game has always been base on the card game, not a Universe mechanics. From the usage of my own knowledge from reading books and searching the web for additional information, Ive made a mechanism on how I could see the MTG Multiverse work.
Here is what the table of contents looks like
Section 1: The Basics 5
1.1 Five Colors Mana 5
1.2 Parts Of A Card 6
1.3 Card Types 6
Supertype 7
Type and Subtype 8
The Other cards 12
1.4 Game Zones 13
Section 2: The Building Blocks 14
2.1 Making Mana 14
2.2 Spells 15
2.3 Abilities 17
2.4 Attacking And Blocking 18
Section 3: Playing A Game 20
3.1 Get A Deck 20
3.2 Get A Friend 20
3.3 Start The Game 20
3.4 Part Of The Turn 21
3.5 The Next Turn 22
3.6 The Ever-Changing Game 22
Section 4: The Golden Rule 23
4.1 Building Your Own Deck 23
4.2 Deck Archetypes 24
4.3 Choose Colors Wisely 26
4.4 Name Your Deck 28
Section 5: Different Ways To Play 29
5.1 Formats 29
5.2 Sanctioned Constructed 30
5.3 Sanctioned Limited 31
5.4 Sanctioned Multiplayer 32
5.5 Casual Constructed 33
5.6 Casual Limited 33
5.7 Casual Multiplayer 34
5.8 Casual Variant 35
5.9 Other Casual Formats 38
Section 6: Glossary 39
6.1 General 39
6.2 Ability Words 54
6.3 Keyword Abilities 60
6.4 Keyword Actions 85
Section 7: Sets 92
Section 8: The Storyline 97
8.1 Our Own Universe 97
8.2 The Multiverse 98
8.3 The Planets 105
Section 9: Banned And Restricted 115
Section 10: Questions? 119
Section 11: Rulebook Credit 120
Section 12: Notes 121
Here is the download link to the document:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/79zyh0fkaao5wgi/AABAPXx5ymAiyo9qEkQRGJW1a?dl=0
Enjoy and feel free to reply to this post to leave comments, suggestion or let me know if there's something wrong in the document