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General Rulings Summary (CHANGES ONLY)                      Updated 2005/11/25

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Rulings are collected from many sources.  See credits and disclaimer at the
end of the file for details. 

This release is under rules used by NINTH EDITION.

These rulings have been updated monthly with the most recent version 
available on the web as the following:

    http://www.crystalkeep.com/magic/rules

This document contains the complete text of the Magic: The Gathering 
Comprehensive Rules document published by Wizards of the Coast.  These rules
are noted with numbered entries.  It also contains additional rulings to
clarify or explain some rules.  These are marked with the word "Ruling".  

A '+' is used to mark changes since the 2005/10/23 release.

Thanx,

Stephen.
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Stephen D'Angelo        | Crystal Keep Editor
dangelo@crystalkeep.com | Former Wizards of the Coast Rules NetRep

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Table of Contents:
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1 - The Game
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2 - Parts of the Game
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3 - Turn Structure
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4 - Spells, Abilities, and Effects
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5 - Additional Rules
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6 - Multiplayer Rules
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7 - Specialized Rules
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703 - Keyword Abilities
+ 703.1 - Radiance is a keyword ability written as "Radiance - [ability]".
+ 703.1.Ruling.1 - Radiance has no meaning in itself and has no game effect in itself.
    The ability listed following the keyword is the actual effect.  Radiance is
    simply used to show that the card has a similar ability to other cards that
    use this keyword. [D'Angelo 2005/11/01]

704 - Other Rules
+ 704.1 - Some cards use the text "If [cost] was spent to play ~this~, [effect]."
+ 704.1.Ruling.1 - This text means that you may optionally pay the [cost] when
    announcing the spell.  If you do, then the effect occurs as described.
    [D'Angelo 2005/11/01]


8 - Tournament Rules
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9 - Glossary
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Acknowledgements and Disclaimers
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  While this work is not officially issued by Wizards of the Coast, it is
    the official collected rulings from official sanctioned representatives
    of and publications by Wizards of the Coast.
  This summary is collected from rulings made by officials and network
    representatives of Wizards of the Coast, along with a number of
    unofficial rulings also collected from the net.  Whenever a source for
    a ruling is known, the name of that person is listed with the ruling.
    "Barclay" is Paul Barclay, a previous MTG-L mailing list NetRep.
    "CompRules" marks rules from the Comprehensive Rules.
    "D'Angelo" is Stephen D'Angelo, the former Rules Summary network
      representative, and former MTG-L mailing list NetRep.
    "DeLaney" is David DeLaney, the network representative for the
      "rec.games.trading-cards.magic.rules" newsgroup.
    "Jordan" is Jeff Jordan, the MTG-L mailing list NetRep.
    "WotC Rules Team" marks official rulings from the rules team.
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  Every attempt has been made to make this summary accurate, but errors do
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