Card Type

The card type is printed on a card's type line, directly below its illustration. Each card type has its own rules for how to play with one. The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal. See rule 205, "Type Line," and rule 212, "Card Type, Supertype, and Subtype." Tokens and copies of spells have card types, even though they're not cards. When an effect changes an object's card type, the new card type replaces all previous card types. If the effect is adding a card type, or allowing an object to retain its card types, it will say so. See rule 212.1c.