Historical Rules · 17 April 2026
Rule 729.3
Official source text from the 17 April 2026 Rules release
Because each player draws seven cards when a game begins, any player with fewer than seven cards in their deck will lose the subgame when state-based actions are checked during the upkeep step of the first turn, regardless of any mulligans that player takes. (See rule 704, “State-Based Actions.”)