Zone

A zone is one of several places where a card or object can be placed during a game of Magic: The Gathering. 
==Regular zones==
There are normally seven zones: library, hand, battlefield, graveyard, stack, exile, and command. Some older cards also use the ante zone. 
===Properties===
Different zones have different rules associated with them, and can be classified using three properties:
* In a public zone, cards are visible to all players by default. Cards in a hidden zone are usually face down.
* If a zone is shared, that means each game only has one of that zone. Other zones exist in multiples, one for each player. Objects in shared zones are still usually thought of as divided by who controls or owns them.
* Some zones track the order of objects in them, while others do not.
** The graveyard zone must be kept in order based on default rules, but the order is irrelevant to all rules and cards printed since 1999. Many sanctioned tournaments and casual formats permit players to ignore graveyard order.
Name 	Public	Shared	Ordered
Library 	 	 	
Hand 	 	 	
Battlefield	 	 	
Graveyard 	 	 	
Stack 	 	 	
Exile 	 	 	
Command 	 	 	
Ante 	 	 	
==Extra zones==
There are a number of silver-bordered zones: Unstable's Contraptions use the contraption deck (a subzone of the library), sprockets (a subzone of the battlefield) and the scrapyard as well as absolutely-removed-from-the-freaking-game-forever zone, mentioned on <c>AWOL</c>. Unfinity added the attraction deck and the junkyard.
The Mystery Booster set introduced the whammy zone, which was ruled to be part of an "additional deck zone", and the interplanar battlefield, which was ruled to be part of the battlefield.
===Unreleased zones===
*Midway for Unfinity. A section on the battlefield that any player can use.
==Players==
While players can be targeted, they are not considered an “object” by the game rules and thus, do not exist in a specific zone.
== Rules ==
==Trivia==
*The "Red zone" used to be the imaginary area where creature combat occurs. "Sending them into the red zone" was slang for attacking with creatures. Some official play surfaces had have a red area where attacking and defending creatures were moved to make it easier to see which creatures are in combat.
*The Mystery Booster 2 test cards describes zones as follows: Battlefield, command, exile, and stack are shared zones. Each player has their own graveyard, hand, and library zones.
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