Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules

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610. One-Shot Effects

  • 610.1. A one-shot effect does something just once and doesnt have a duration. Examples include dealing damage, destroying a permanent, creating a token, and moving an object from one zone to another.
  • 610.2. Some one-shot effects create a delayed triggered ability, which instructs a player to do something later in the game (usually at a specific time) rather than as the spell or ability thats creating the one-shot effect resolves. See rule 603.7.
  • 610.3. Some one-shot effects cause an object to change zones until a specified event occurs. A second one-shot effect is created immediately after the specified event. This second one-shot effect returns the object to its previous zone.
  • 610.3a If a resolving spell or activated ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the object to change zones, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that spell or ability was put onto the stack, the object doesnt move.
  • 610.3b If a resolving triggered ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the object to change zones, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that ability triggered, the object doesnt move.
  • 610.3c An object returned to the battlefield this way returns under its owners control unless otherwise specified.
  • 610.3d If multiple one-shot effects are created this way immediately after one or more simultaneous events, those one-shot effects are also simultaneous.
  • 610.4. Some one-shot effects cause a permanent to phase out until a specified event occurs. A second one-shot effect is created immediately after the specified event. This second one-shot effect causes the permanent to phase in.
  • 610.4a A permanent phased out this way doesnt phase in as a result of the turn-based action during a players untap step (see rule 502.1). Other effects may cause it to phase in. If a permanent phased out this way phases in due to another effect, the second one-shot effect doesnt happen, even if that permanent has phased out again.
  • 610.4b If a resolving spell or activated ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the permanent to phase out, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that spell or ability was put onto the stack, the permanent doesnt phase out.
  • 610.4c If a resolving triggered ability creates the initial one-shot effect that causes the permanent to phase out, and the specified event has already occurred before that one-shot effect would occur but after that ability triggered, the permanent doesnt phase out.
  • 610.4d If multiple one-shot effects are created this way immediately after one or more simultaneous events, those one-shot effects are also simultaneous.