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This search based on the March 17, 2008 release of the Rulings.
402 - Abilities
- 402.1 - An ability is text on an object that's not reminder text or flavor
text (see Rule 400.1). The result of following such an instruction is an
effect. (See Rule 416, "Effects.") Abilities can affect the objects
they're on; they can also affect other objects and/or players. Abilities
can grant abilities to other objects or to the objects they're on; they do
so when the words "has," "have," "gains," or "gain" are used.
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- 402.2 - There are three general categories of abilities: activated,
triggered, and static. Activated and triggered abilities can also be mana
abilities. Abilities can generate one-shot effects or continuous effects.
Some effects are replacement effects or prevention effects.
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- 402.3 - Abilities can be beneficial or detrimental. [CompRules 2005/08/01]
Example: "[This creature] can't block" is an ability.
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- 402.4 - An additional cost or alternative cost to play a card is an ability
of the card. [CompRules 2003/07/01]
- 402.5 - An ability isn't a spell and therefore can't be countered by
anything that counters only spells. Abilities can be countered by effects
that specifically counter abilities, as well as by the rules (for example,
an ability with one or more targets is countered if all its targets become
illegal). [CompRules 2003/07/01]
- 402.6 - Once activated or triggered, an ability exists independently of its
source as an ability on the stack. Destruction or removal of the source
after that time won't affect the ability. Note that some abilities cause
a source to do something (for example, "Prodigal Sorcerer deals 1
damage to target creature or player") rather than the ability doing
anything directly. In these cases, any activated or triggered ability
that references information about the source because the effect needs to
be divided checks that information when the ability is put on the stack.
Otherwise, it will check that information when it resolves. In both
instances, if the source is no longer in play, its last known information
is used. [CompRules 2006/02/01]
- 402.7 - An object may have multiple abilities. Aside from certain defined
abilities that may be strung together on a single line (see Rule 502,
"Keyword Abilities"), each paragraph break in a card's text marks a
separate ability. An object may also have multiple instances of the same
ability. Each instance functions independently. This may or may not
produce more effects than a single instance; refer to the specific ability
for more information. [CompRules 2003/07/01]
- 402.8 - Abilities of an instant or sorcery usually function only while the
object is not in play. Abilities of all other objects usually function
only while that object is in play. The exceptions are as follows:
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- 402.8a - Characteristic-defining abilities function in all zones.
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- 402.8b - An ability that states which zones it functions in functions only
from those zones. [CompRules 2006/02/01]
- 402.8c - An ability of an object that modifies what it costs to play
functions on the stack. [CompRules 2006/02/01]
- 402.8d - An object's ability that restricts or modifies how that object can
be played functions in any zone from which it could be played.
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- 402.8e - An object's ability that modifies how it comes into play functions
as that object is coming into play. See Rule 419.6i.
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- 402.8f - An object's activated ability that has a cost that can't be paid
while the object is in play functions from any zone in which its cost can
be paid. [CompRules 2007/05/01]
- 402.8g - A trigger condition that can trigger only in a zone other than the
in-play zone triggers from that zone. Other trigger conditions of the
same triggered ability may function in different zones.
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Example: Absolver Thrull has the ability "When Absolver Thrull comes
into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, destroy
target enchantment." The first trigger condition triggers from the
in-play zone and the second trigger condition functions from the
removed-from-the-game zone. (See Rule 502.51, "Haunt.")
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- 402.8h - An ability whose cost or effect specifies that it moves the object
it's on out of a particular zone functions only in that zone, unless that
ability's trigger condition, or a previous part of that ability's cost
or effect, specifies that the object is put into that zone.
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Example: Necrosavant says "{3}{B}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return
Necrosavant from your graveyard to play. Play this ability only during
your upkeep." A player may play this ability only if Necrosavant is in
his or her graveyard. [CompRules 2006/02/01]
This search based on the March 17, 2008 release of the Rulings.
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