CR / RELEASE 2026-07-24
Rule 128
Privacy
Rule hierarchy
Direct children
128.1A card will always exist in one of the many Zones described during Setup.128.2A card will have a different level of Privacy based on its state or where it resides at a given time.128.3Secret: This level of Privacy indicates that no player may read or look at the face of the card.128.4Private: This level of Privacy indicates that only the controller of a card on the board or the owner of a card in any other zone may read or look at the face of the card. Example: Cards in a player's hand are owned by that player. Only that player may read or look at their faces. Example: If a player controls a facedown card at a battlefield, that player and only that player may read or look at that card's face, regardless of who owns that card.128.5Public: This level of Privacy indicates that any player may read or look at the face of the card.128.6A player cannot be compelled to perform an action on cards whose privacy is secret or private if that action specifies a type or quality of card. Example: A card effect reads, “Play a unit from your hand, ignoring its costs.” Although the effect does not say “may”, the player can choose not to perform the action even if they have a unit in their hand, because the effect specifies a card type.