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Projection and Manifestation:

The playing of a card is broken up into two steps on the Thread (stack/chain). A Projected card is not a Manifest card.

Unlike MTG, effects are tied to cards on the Thread (stack). The card resolves independently of its effects.

1.) A card is first "Projected" onto the board and Thread. It has not yet resolved on the Thread. It cannot be Invoked or conduct combat. Nor can it be targeted by cards that specifically target only Manifest cards. In MTG terms, it has not yet entered the battlefield.

2.) Once a Projected card resolves on the Thread (its Projection is uncontested), then it becomes Manifest. Once it becomes Manifest, it is fully functional: it can be Invoked (use its effects) and conduct combat (Directly Influence). Invoking or conducting combat with it means that you add those actions to the Thread independently of the card, similar to MTG activated abilities.

The Projection of a card is not an effect, but it is an item on the Thread. Therefore Quick (lighting bolt) effects do not preclude it.

The Projection of a card can be used along with Frenning (see Frenning) to fizzle card effects by removing their target.

You can Project a card onto another card of the same Type to implicitly Fren them together. The resulting card has Austism (summoning sickness). This action has a wide variety of applications.

There are card effects which specifically target only Projected cards, meaning they only interact with the card as it is being played. Projected cards themselves are completely defenseless until they resolve.

There are card effects which specifically target only Manifest cards (most card effects), which do not interact with Projected cards.

There are also card effects which do not specify Projected or Manifest card (non-targeting effects), and they affect both Projected and Manifest cards, sort of like YGO "Dark Hole".