Scheme

Scheme is a card type introduced in Archenemy and represents the long-reaching machinations of a powerful planeswalker. Some Schemes have the supertype Ongoing that remain in play until a particular condition is met that requires the archenemy to abandon it. The schemes have been given the flavor (name and flavor text) of over-the-top villainy.

Like Planes, Scheme cards are the size of two regular magic cards side by side.

Rules

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 314. Schemes
  • 314.1. Scheme is a card type seen only on nontraditional Magic cards. Only the Archenemy casual variant uses scheme cards. See rule 904, “Archenemy.”
  • 314.2. Scheme cards remain in the command zone throughout the game, both while they’re part of a scheme deck and while they’re face up. They’re not permanents. They can’t be cast. If a scheme card would leave the command zone, it remains in the command zone.
  • 314.3. Scheme cards have no subtypes.
  • 314.4. A scheme card may have any number of static, triggered, and/or activated abilities. As long as a scheme card is face up in the command zone, its static abilities affect the game, its triggered abilities may trigger, and its activated abilities may be activated.
  • 314.5. The owner of a scheme card is the player who started the game with it in the command zone. The controller of a face-up scheme card is its owner.
  • 314.6. If a non-ongoing scheme card is face up in the command zone, and no triggered abilities of any scheme are on the stack or waiting to be put on the stack, that scheme card is turned face down and put on the bottom of its owner’s scheme deck the next time a player would receive priority. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)
  • 314.7. If an ability of a scheme card includes the text “this scheme,” it means the scheme card in the command zone that’s the source of that ability. This is an exception to rule 109.2.

List of Scheme cards

Name	Available
All in Good Time	Archenemy
All Shall Smolder in My Wake	Archenemy
Approach My Molten Realm	Archenemy
Behold the Power of Destruction	Archenemy
Choose Your Champion	Archenemy
Dance, Pathetic Marionette	Archenemy
The Dead Shall Serve	Archenemy
A Display of My Dark Power	Archenemy
Embrace My Diabolical Vision	Archenemy
Every Hope Shall Vanish	Archenemy
Every Last Vestige Shall Rot	Archenemy
Evil Comes to Fruition	Archenemy
The Fate of the Flammable	Archenemy
Feed the Machine	Archenemy
I Bask in Your Silent Awe	Archenemy
I Call on the Ancient Magics	Archenemy
I Delight in Your Convulsions	Archenemy
I Know All, I See All	Archenemy
Ignite the Cloneforge!	Archenemy
Into the Earthen Maw	Archenemy
Introductions Are in Order	Archenemy
The Iron Guardian Stirs	Archenemy
Know Naught but Fire	Archenemy
Look Skyward and Despair	Archenemy
May Civilization Collapse	Archenemy
Mortal Flesh Is Weak	Archenemy
My Crushing Masterstroke	Archenemy
My Genius Knows No Bounds	Archenemy
My Undead Horde Awakens	Archenemy
My Wish Is Your Command	Archenemy
Nature Demands an Offering	Archenemy
Nature Shields Its Own	Archenemy
Nothing Can Stop Me Now	Archenemy
Only Blood Ends Your Nightmares	Archenemy
The Pieces Are Coming Together	Archenemy
Realms Befitting My Majesty	Archenemy
Roots of All Evil	Archenemy
Rotted Ones, Lay Siege	Archenemy
Surrender Your Thoughts	Archenemy
Tooth, Claw, and Tail	Archenemy
The Very Soil Shall Shake	Archenemy
Which of You Burns Brightest?	Archenemy
Your Fate Is Thrice Sealed	Archenemy
Your Puny Minds Cannot Fathom	Archenemy
Your Will Is Not Your Own	Archenemy
Plots That Span Centuries	Archenemy Release Event
Perhaps You've Met My Cohort	Archenemy Store Event
Your Inescapable Doom	Archenemy Store Event
Drench The Soil In Their Blood	Archenemy Store Event
Imprison This Insolent Wretch	Archenemy Store Event