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  #  1. DECK CONSTRUCTION UPDATES  #
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  Three cards have the rules text "Remove this card from your deck before playing
  if you are not playing for ante." These cards are Contract from Below, Darkpact,
  and Demonic Attorney.

  In earlier Wizards' Tournaments, the use of these Ante-cards has been ambiguous.
  In particular this has been confusing with respect to deck size and when these
  Ante-cards are removed from the deck. So to clarify: Before a duel starts, any
  of these three Ante-cards will first be removed from the decks. Then the number
  of cards left in each deck are counted, and each deck must still contain at least
  40 cards for the deck to be considered legal. Then the "fake ante" is placed
  (which can legally reduce the deck size to 39 for the remainder of the duel),
  and finally the game can start.



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  * 2.1 Birds of Paradise *
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  The mana you get from tapping the birds can be of any color.


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  * 2.2 Charms *
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  Ivory Cup, Crystal Rod, Throne of Bone, Iron Star and Wooden Sphere (often
  called "the charms") must be activated immediately as someone cast a spell of
  the corresponding color. Each activation is directly related to the spell being
  cast; the charms will not give you more life for any additional spell cast later
  in the turn (unless more mana is spent). This also applies to Soul Net; each
  activation must correspond exactly with a creature dying. Basically, the charms
  adds "you gain one life" to the text of a spell for each generic mana you spend.

  Remember that charms are activated as non-interrupt fast effects, and can not be
  used to gain life from interrupts (as they are too slow).


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  * 2.3 Curses *
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  The "curses" (Cursed Land, Wanderlust, Feedback and Warp Artifact) will only
  deal damage to the owner of the cursed card during that player's turn. Some of
  the curses make this more clear than others (compare e.g. the text of Wanderlust
  to Warp Artifact, there is far more ambiguity in the latter). This was another
  case where we had to go and look at the development cards to get a clear answer,
  and from there we can see that they all only pings once per full turn cycle.


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  * 2.5 Jade Statue *
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  Jade Statue should be interpreted as a Continuous Artifact with no effect
  outside of attack exchanges. During an attack, interpret Jade Statue as a Poly
  Artifact (it can be activated, and activating it doesn't tap it). Once it is
  activated, it is an Artifact Creature until the attack is over. Jade Statue is
  not considered a creature unless it is currently attacking or blocking.

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