Regular (REL) Stuff
Turn it Around!
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Before and After
100

This is the minimum number of players required to sanction a Regular REL tournament.

What is 8?

100

This step occurs twice in one turn if a creature in combat has double strike.

What is the Combat Damage step?

100

This private zone is where cards are most often cast from.

What is your Hand?

100

When your creature with this ability deals damage, you gain life.

What is Lifelink?

100

Structure across water in the capital of England that spawns 2/2 zombies when your creatures die.

What is London Bridge From Below?

200

When two players intentionally draw without playing any MTG, this is the record that should be reported.

What is 0-0-3 (or the "Draw" button)?

200

This step is when a player discards down to seven cards.

What is the Cleanup step?

200

This zone is where abilities and spells that have been cast and are in the process of resolving go.

What is the Stack?

200

Creatures with this ability can assign excess damage to the defending player.

What is Trample?

200

This escaped prisoner of Azkaban uses deadly flowers to produce three mana.

What is Sirius Black Lotus?

300

When a player's deck has illegal cards in it, those are removed and replaced with that player's choice of these.

What are Basic Lands?

300

This is the first step of combat that has a turn-based action.

What is the Declare Attackers step?

300

This shared zone is where combat happens and where permanents hang out.

What is the Battlefield?

300

Creatures with this ability can only be blocked by creatures with the same ability or with reach.

What is Flying?

300

This TV show explores how Ted fell in love with a white one drop who protects creatures.

What is How I Met Your Mother of Runes?

400

This is the proper result of letting an opponent break a rule so that you can gain an advantage.

What is Disqualification?

400

This is when a triggered ability that triggered during a player's untap step goes on the stack.

What is the Upkeep step?

400

This shared zone is where things that used to be "removed from the game" go, although things here still don't count as being "outside the game".

What is Exile?

400

Any amount damage dealt by a creature with this ability is enough to be lethal.

What is Deathtouch?

400

This six-stringed instrument has a Characteristic Defining Ability that makes its power equal to the number of types represented in the cards in graveyards.

What is Guitarmogoyf?

500

This is the term used when a Regular REL limited tournament allows players to continue changing and editing their deck throughout the night.

What is Continuous Construction?

500

This is when the damage assignment order is announced.

What is the Declare Blockers step?

500

This zone, named for a casual format, is where emblems from Planeswalkers go.

What is the Command Zone?

500

Creatures with this ability can be cast any time you could cast an instant.

What is Flash?

500

This powerful artifact that can produce two mana is what we call the circle of volcanic activity and earthquakes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

What is Sol Ring of Fire?

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