G.14 - Discard


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G.14.1- To "discard" a card is to place it into your graveyard from your hand. [CompRules 1999/04/23]

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G.14.2- If you have to discard more than one card in a single effect, all the cards are chosen and discarded at one time (unless otherwise noted on the card). [Duelist Magazine #18, Page 55, 1997/08/01] You decide the order the cards get stacked in the graveyard (see Rule Z.3.3). [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]

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G.14.Ruling.1- You cannot discard a card just because you want to. You can only discard if a game rule or spell or ability tells you to do so. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]

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G.14.Ruling.2- A spell or ability may have you put a card from your hand into the graveyard. This is not a discard unless the word "discard" is used in the spell or ability. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]

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G.14.Ruling.3- If you are asked to discard, and it does not specify how the card to discard is chosen, then the discarding player chooses. [Mirage, Page 54]

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G.14.Ruling.4- A discard is not forced if it is done as part of a cost, and it is forced if it is done as part of an effect. [D'Angelo 1997/06/11]

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G.14.Ruling.5- A discard done as part of an effect is forced even if you have the option of doing something to avoid the discard. [Duelist Magazine #14, Page 26, 1996/12/01]

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