Rule evolution

Rule 800.6

Previously numbered 800.5.

Earliest archived Rules release: 2009-10-01 · 4 wording revisions · 1 renumbering

  1. Earliest archived Rules release800.5Details
    In a multiplayer game, the first time a player takes a mulligan, he or she draws a new hand of seven cards rather than six cards. Subsequent hands decrease by one card as normal. The Two-Headed Giant variant employs more extensive changes to the mulligan rule; see rule 806.6a.
  2. Wording changed800.5Details
    In a multiplayer game, the first time a player takes a mulligan, he or she draws a new hand of seven cards rather than six cards. Subsequent hands decrease by one card as normal. The Two-Headed Giant variant employs more extensive changes to the mulligan rule; see rule 806.6a.
  3. Wording changed800.5Details
    In a multiplayer game, the first time a player takes a mulligan, he or she draws a new hand of sevenas many cards ratheras thanhe sixor cardsshe had before. Subsequent hands decrease by one card as normal.
  4. Wording changed800.5Details
    In a multiplayer game, the first time a player takes a mulligan, hethey ordraw she draws a new hand of as many cards as hethey or she had before. Subsequent hands decrease by one card as normal.
  5. Wording changed800.5Details
    In a multiplayer game, the first time a player takes a mulligan, they draw a new hand of as many cards as they had before. In a multiplayer game, the first mulligan a player takes doesn't count toward the number of cards that player will put on the bottom of their library or the number of mulligans that player may take. Subsequent hands decrease by one card as normal.Subsequent mulligans are counted toward these numbers as normal.
  6. Renumbered800.5 → 800.6Details

    Previously
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    800. General

    Then
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    800. General

    In a multiplayer game, the first mulligan a player takes doesn’t count toward the number of cards that player will put on the bottom of their library or the number of mulligans that player may take. Subsequent mulligans are counted toward these numbers as normal.

Current in the latest available Rules
Unchanged since 2026-08-07.