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Rule 403.1

Earliest archived Rules release: 2009-10-01 · 1 wording revision · 0 renumberings

  1. Earliest archived Rules release403.1Details
    Most of the area between the players represents the battlefield. The battlefield starts out empty. Permanents a player controls are normally kept in front of him or her on the battlefield, though there are some cases (such as an Aura attached to another player's permanent) when a permanent one player controls is kept closer to a different player.
  2. Wording changed403.1Details
    Most of the area between the players represents the battlefield. The battlefield starts out empty. Permanents a player controls are normally kept in front of himthem or her on the battlefield, though there are some cases (such as an Aura attached to another player's permanent) when a permanent one player controls is kept closer to a different player.

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Unchanged since 2026-08-07.