MTG Keyword Rules — Comprehensive Rules Glossary
Look up keyword abilities and keyword actions from the Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules
A
- Abandon [701.33]
- Absorb [702.64]
- Activate [701.2]
- Adapt [701.46]
- Affinity [702.41]
- Afflict [702.130]
- Afterlife [702.135]
- Aftermath [702.127]
- Airbend [701.65]
- Amass [701.47]
- Amplify [702.38]
- Annihilator [702.86]
- Ascend [702.131]
- Assemble [701.45]
- Assist [702.132]
- Attach [701.3]
- Aura Swap [702.65]
- Awaken [702.113]
B
C
- Cascade [702.85]
- Cast [701.5]
- Casualty [702.153]
- Champion [702.72]
- Changeling [702.73]
- Cipher [702.99]
- Clash [701.30]
- Cleave [702.148]
- Cloak [701.58]
- Collect Evidence [701.59]
- Companion [702.139]
- Compleated [702.150]
- Connive [701.50]
- Conspire [702.78]
- Convert [701.28]
- Convoke [702.51]
- Counter [701.6]
- Craft [702.167]
- Create [701.7]
- Crew [702.122]
- Cumulative Upkeep [702.24]
- Cycling [702.29]
D
- Dash [702.109]
- Daybound and Nightbound [702.145]
- Deathtouch [702.2]
- Decayed [702.147]
- Defender [702.3]
- Delve [702.66]
- Demonstrate [702.144]
- Destroy [701.8]
- Detain [701.35]
- Dethrone [702.105]
- Devoid [702.114]
- Devour [702.82]
- Discard [701.9]
- Discover [701.57]
- Disguise [702.168]
- Disturb [702.146]
- Double [701.10]
- Double Strike [702.4]
- Dredge [702.52]
E
- Earthbend [701.66]
- Echo [702.30]
- Embalm [702.128]
- Emerge [702.119]
- Enchant [702.5]
- Encore [702.141]
- Endure [701.63]
- Enlist [702.154]
- Entwine [702.42]
- Epic [702.50]
- Equip [702.6]
- Escalate [702.120]
- Escape [702.138]
- Eternalize [702.129]
- Evoke [702.74]
- Evolve [702.100]
- Exalted [702.83]
- Exchange [701.12]
- Exert [701.43]
- Exhaust [702.177]
- Exile [701.13]
- Exploit [702.110]
- Explore [701.44]
- Extort [702.101]
F
- Fabricate [702.123]
- Face a Villainous Choice [701.55]
- Fading [702.32]
- Fateseal [701.29]
- Fear [702.36]
- Fight [701.14]
- Firebending [702.189]
- First Strike [702.7]
- Flanking [702.25]
- Flash [702.8]
- Flashback [702.34]
- Flying [702.9]
- For Mirrodin! [702.163]
- Forage [701.61]
- Forecast [702.57]
- Foretell [702.143]
- Fortify [702.67]
- Freerunning [702.173]
- Frenzy [702.68]
- Fuse [702.102]
H
I
L
M
- Madness [702.35]
- Manifest [701.40]
- Manifest Dread [701.62]
- Max Speed [702.178]
- Mayhem [702.187]
- Meld [701.42]
- Melee [702.121]
- Menace [702.111]
- Mentor [702.134]
- Mill [701.17]
- Miracle [702.94]
- Mobilize [702.181]
- Modular [702.43]
- Monstrosity [701.37]
- More Than Meets the Eye [702.162]
- Morph [702.37]
- Mutate [702.140]
- Myriad [702.116]
O
P
R
- Rampage [702.23]
- Ravenous [702.156]
- Reach [702.17]
- Read Ahead [702.155]
- Rebound [702.88]
- Reconfigure [702.151]
- Recover [702.59]
- Regenerate [701.19]
- Reinforce [702.77]
- Renown [702.112]
- Replicate [702.56]
- Retrace [702.81]
- Reveal [701.20]
- Riot [702.136]
- Ripple [702.60]
- Roll to Visit Your Attractions [701.52]
S
- Sacrifice [701.21]
- Saddle [702.171]
- Scavenge [702.97]
- Scry [701.22]
- Search [701.23]
- Set in Motion [701.32]
- Shadow [702.28]
- Shroud [702.18]
- Shuffle [701.24]
- Skulk [702.118]
- Sneak [702.190]
- Solved [702.169]
- Soulbond [702.95]
- Soulshift [702.46]
- Space Sculptor [702.158]
- Spectacle [702.137]
- Splice [702.47]
- Split Second [702.61]
- Spree [702.172]
- Squad [702.157]
- Start Your Engines! [702.179]
- Station [702.184]
- Storm [702.40]
- Sunburst [702.44]
- Support [701.41]
- Surge [702.117]
- Surveil [701.25]
- Suspect [701.60]
- Suspend [702.62]
T
V
Exert
701.43 Keyword Action
701.43a
To exert a permanent, you choose to have it not untap during your next untap step.
701.43b
A permanent can be exerted even if it’s not tapped or has already been exerted in a turn. If you exert a permanent more than once before your next untap step, each effect causing it not to untap expires during the same untap step.
701.43c
An object that isn’t on the battlefield can’t be exerted.
701.43d
“You may exert [this creature] as it attacks” is an optional cost to attack (see rule 508.1g). Some objects with this static ability have a triggered ability that triggers “when you do” printed in the same paragraph. These abilities are linked. (See rule 607.2h.)