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In Magic, there is a \u201cGolden rule\u201d that you should always remember. Basically, it says that \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d overrides \u201ccan\u201d.<\/p>\n
So lets explore what happens when Narcissa controls Havoc Festival<\/a>, and Annabelle casts Sphinx\u2019s Revelation<\/a>. Sphinx\u2019s Revelation says to gain X life, while Havoc Festival says players can\u2019t gain life.<\/p>\n Can\u2019t > Can.<\/p>\n No life will be gained. But cards will still be drawn.<\/p>\n Now, \u201cwhy doesn\u2019t this stop the card draw?\u201d you might ask.<\/p>\n It\u2019s because there are two instructions (indicated by two verbs) which are independent. It doesn’t matter that they’re in one sentence. Sphinx’s Revelation does not state \u201cGain X life; if you do, draw X cards\u201d or \u201cGain X life, then draw cards equal to the amount of life you just gained\u201d (in either case, yes, Havoc Festival would stop cards from being drawn). There is no link between the drawing cards effect and the gaining life effect, other than the fact that both the numbers are equal to X. One effect not happening will not stop the other, since they are not conditional on one another. <\/p>\n Note that some cards do<\/em> link two instructions, making the second effect conditional on the first, but those cards will make that explicit in their text (e.g., “for each creature destroyed this way” or “for each permanent put into a graveyard this way” or “for each damage prevented this way” on cards like Decree of Pain<\/a>, Terastodon<\/a>, or Swans of Bryn Argoll<\/a>).<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung (welcome to the team!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Magic, there is a \u201cGolden rule\u201d that you should always remember. Basically, it says that \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d overrides \u201ccan\u201d. So lets explore what happens when Narcissa controls , and Annabelle casts . Sphinx\u2019s Revelation says to gain X life, while Havoc Festival says players can\u2019t gain life. Can\u2019t > Can. No life will be gained. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[864,863],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-havoc-festival","tag-sphinxs-revelation","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}