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Historical Rules · 18 June 2010

Rule 902.1

Official source text from the 18 June 2010 Rules release

In the Vanguard variant, a vanguard card allows each player to play the role of a famous character. Each player will have one face-up vanguard card whose abilities and other characteristics affect the game. The Vanguard variant uses all the normal rules for a _Magic_ game, with the following additions.

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