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Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes

Conflux to Alara Reborn (Single Change View)

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217.1c.

An object that moves from one zone to another is treated as a new object. Effects connected with its previous location will no longer affect it. There are five exceptions to this rule: (1) Effects from spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities that change the characteristics of an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell on the stack will continue to apply to the permanent that spell creates. (2) Abilities that trigger when an object moves from one zone to another (for example, "When Rancor is put into a graveyard from play") can find the object in the zone it moved to when the ability triggered. (3) Abilities of Auras that trigger when the enchanted permanent leaves play can find that permanent in the zone it moved to and can also find the Aura in its owner's graveyard after state-based effects have been checked. (4) Prevention effects that apply to damage from an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell on the stack will continue to apply to damage from the permanent that spell becomes. (5) Permanents that phase out or in "remember" their earlier states. See rule 217.8c.

217.1c.

An object that moves from one zone to another becomes a new object with no memory of, or relation to, its previous existence. There are seven exceptions to this rule: (1) Effects from spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities that change the characteristics of an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell on the stack continue to apply to the permanent that spell becomes. (2) Prevention effects that apply to damage from an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell on the stack will continue to apply to damage from the permanent that spell becomes. (3) Abilities of a permanent that require information about choices made when that permanent was played use information about the spell that became that permanent. (4) Abilities that trigger when an object moves from one zone to another (for example, "When Rancor is put into a graveyard from play") can find the new object that it became in the zone it moved to when the ability triggered. (5) Abilities of Auras that trigger when the enchanted permanent leaves play can find the new object that permanent became in the zone it moved to; they can also find the new object the Aura became in its owner's graveyard after state-based effects have been checked. (6) If an effect grants a nonland card an ability that allows it to be played, that ability will continue to apply to the new object that card became after it moved to the stack as a result of being played this way. (7) Permanents that phase out or in "remember" their earlier states. See rule 217.8c.