Historical Rules · 30 September 2011
Rule 902.1
Official source text from the 30 September 2011 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.