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Rules for this card

• Jump-start Rule 702.133 Glossary

  A keyword ability that lets a player cast a card from their graveyard by discarding a card. See rule 702.133, “Jump-Start.”

• Surveil Rule 701.25 Glossary

  To manipulate some of the cards on top of your library, sending some of them to your graveyard and rearranging the rest. See rule 701.25, “Surveil.”

Rulings (7)

• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  When casting a spell with jump-start, you must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  You may planeswalk only in games using the Planechase variant. If you are instructed to planeswalk in any other game, nothing happens.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
• January 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
  You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
• January 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
  When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.

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