Card types

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Every Magic: The Gathering card has one or more types. A card's type ("card type") tells you when you can play the card and what happens to the card after you do. The card types are:

• artifact
• creature
• enchantment
• instant
• land
• planeswalker
• sorcery
• tribal

Some objects may have more than one card type (e.g., artifact creature). Additionally, cards may have supertypes or subtypes.

From the Comprehensive Rules 204. Type Line 204.1. The type line is printed directly below the illustration. It contains the card's card type(s). It also contains the card's subtype(s) and supertype(s), if applicable. 204.2. Card Types 204.2a The card types are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, plane, planeswalker, sorcery, tribal, and vanguard. See section 3, "Card Types." 204.2b Some objects have more than one card type (for example, an artifact creature). Such objects satisfy the criteria for any effect that applies to any of their card types. 204.2c Tokens have card types even though they aren't cards. The same is true of copies of spells and copies of cards.

Rules date: 2009/10/05

[edit] Obsolete

The "Interrupt" and "Mana Source" basetypes are now obsolete and no longer used, having been incorporated into the Instant type.

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Card types
Groups	Supertypes	Card types	Subtypes
Spell (non-permanent)		Instant	Trap	Arcane
		Sorcery
Permanent	Basic, Legendary, Snow, World	Artifact	Equipment, Fortification, Contraption
		Creature	(...)
		Enchantment	Aura, Shrine
		Land	(...)
		Planeswalker	(...)
Miscellaneous		Tribal	(...)
		Plane	(...)
		Vanguard
Obsolete	Mono, Poly, Continuous	Interrupt, Mana Source