Subtype

Subtype is a characteristic of a card. Every card has a card type and may have one or more subtypes. These are printed on the type line.

List of subtypes
Usually all creatures (exception: Nameless Race), planes, planeswalkers (exception: The Wanderer) and tribal cards have at least one subtype.

On artifact, enchantment, instant, sorcery and land cards the subtypes are optional.

Other card types like phenomenon, vanguard, scheme, or conspiracy do not have any subtypes.

Artifact types
Artifact cards uses artifact types.
 * Clue, Contraption, Equipment, Food, Fortification, Gold, Treasure, Vehicle.

Creature types
Creature and tribal cards use creature types. These follow a race/class model.

Enchantment types
Enchantment cards uses enchantment types.
 * Aura, Cartouche, Curse, Rune, Saga, Shrine, Shard.

Land types
Land cards uses land types. These are divided into the basic and nonbasic land types.
 * Basic land types: Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest.
 * Nonbasic land types: Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Urza's, Mine, Power-Plant, and Tower.

Plane types
Plane cards use planar types.
 * Alara, Arkhos, Azgol, Belenon, Bolas's Meditation Realm, Dominaria, Equilor, Ergamon, Fabacin, Innistrad, Iquatana, Ir, Kaldheim, Kamigawa, Karsus, Kephalai, Kinshala, Kolbahan, Kyneth, Lorwyn, Luvion, Mercadia, Mirrodin, Moag, Mongseng, Muraganda, New Phyrexia, Phyrexia, Pyrulea, Rabiah, Rath, Ravnica, Regatha, Segovia, Serra's Realm, Shadowmoor, Shandalar, Ulgrotha, Valla, Vryn, Wildfire, Xerex, and Zendikar.

Planeswalker types
Planeswalker cards use planeswalker types. These are usually the first name of the planeswalker with a few exceptions like Bolas which is the last name of Nicol Bolas.

Spell types
Instant and sorcery cards use spell types.
 * Adventure, Arcane, Lesson, Trap (only on instants).