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Does Teferi's Puzzle Box trigger before or after a player draws for their turn?

Short answer
Teferi's Puzzle Box triggers AFTER the player draws their card(s) for the turn, then replaces their hand during the draw step.

Teferi's Puzzle Box has a triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of each player's draw step. However, the normal draw-for-the-turn also occurs during the draw step. The key is understanding the order: the draw step begins, the turn-based action of drawing a card happens first (CR 504.1), and then triggered abilities that triggered at the beginning of the draw step are put on the stack (CR 405.1, 503.1).

Wait — actually, let's be precise. "At the beginning of the draw step" triggers trigger as the draw step begins, before the turn-based draw happens. Per CR 503.1, the draw step starts and "triggered abilities that trigger 'at the beginning of [a] draw step'" trigger. These go on the stack, resolve, and then the turn-based action (drawing a card) occurs. So the Puzzle Box ability actually resolves before the normal draw.

In practice: the draw step begins → Teferi's Puzzle Box triggers → the ability goes on the stack and resolves (the player puts their hand on the bottom of their library and draws that many cards) → then the player draws their one card for the turn as the turn-based action. This means the player ends up drawing hand-size plus one cards total.

For example: you have 4 cards in hand at the start of your draw step. Puzzle Box triggers, resolves, you put 4 cards on the bottom of your library and draw 4. Then you draw 1 more for the turn, ending the draw step with 5 cards (that you've never seen before, minus any you drew in Puzzle Box's draw).

This is confirmed by CR 503.1 (draw step structure) and CR 116.5 (turn-based actions happen after triggered abilities from the same trigger point have been placed on the stack and resolved).

HIGH confidence CR 503.1 CR 116.5 CR 405.1
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