A Planeswalker's Primer for Magic 2010: Lifelink

Magic 2010 goes on sale July 17. Watch this video to learn all about the Lifelink keyword.

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Gaming

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• magic
• 2010
• core
• set

[andre0407]

Maybe it's like an example quoted in the Ice Age expansion's rulebook... If someone lobs a grenade at you and you kill that offending person, that isn't going to stop the grenade.

[RazoRP666]

i still don't get it. pyromancer activated ability goes on stack, i use doom blade, it goes on stack. then doom blade resolve first and pyromancer is destroyed so it's activated ability can't resolve anymore, i lose 0 life, why it's not like that?

another thing, i use door to nothingless' activated ability and you use naturalize. naturalize resolve first and then nothing happen or like in this vid you still lose a game because game 'remebers' door's ability . am i wrong? please help

[Philbertsroom]

What about your FILP rule in stacking? Doesn't make sense anymore.

[shanesmurph]

@nickrenfo Uh-huh, thanks.

[nickrenfo]

@shanesmurph According to the video, you would gain 3. However, my friends that play where you'd get one challenge the validity of this video. So, if you are one that believes this to be official (like myself) then you would gain 3 life.

[shanesmurph]

@nickrenfo So do you 1 life or 3?

[nickrenfo]

@shanesmurph This video uses the example that the 2/1 with lifelink was blocked by a 1/1 without lifelink, and the dude with lifelink gained two life from it. However, my friends that I play with always say how you gain life equal to the damage dealt (which in that situation was 1), and I always come back with the example that if you were playing a game and you deal 100 damage to something with 50 health, you still deal 100 damage because it is compounded instantly, not point by point.

[shanesmurph]

What happens if you attack with a 3/3 creature with lifelink and it is defended by a creature with 1/1. Do you gain 3 life or 1 life?

[thisismy7thusername]

@SlowDaddie He wasn't attacking, he was using Prodigal Pyromancer's activated ability, which only deals 1 damage, regardless of it's power.

[SlowDaddie]

that is SOOO confusing...

So PR can be destroyed, but still get the 4 damange + life link because that was the last info the game had before damage resolved. But then, why can you destroy war-hammer and deny the 3 damage. When PR attacked, that event was when it DID have war hammer attatched.

Very confusing...

[v33films]

i want that playing board lol anywhere i can buy it?

[diegosvega]

@RazoRP666 Because you already used the pyromancer ability, so the game knows it was from the pyromancer, the ability has been triggered.

And yes, if you use the door to nothingness, your opponent loses the game, because like pyromancer, the ability has been already played.

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