Last Updated: 2026-07-16

128.6. A 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.

128.6.a. If an effect would compel a player to perform an action on cards whose privacy is secret or private, and if that effect specifies a type or quality of card, the player in question may choose to ignore that instruction. Ignored instructions are deemed impossible.