Let’s say you and I both have five creatures, and we’re at 3 life. Casting the Charm will cause your creatures to deal a total of five damage to you. However, at the same time, my creatures are also dealing a total of five damage to me. So we both take five damage, dropping us both to -2 life, and we both lose the game, causing a draw.<\/p>\n
Changing life totals or the number of creatures won’t really change anything. The game doesn’t care how far below 0 a player goes, all it cares about is that the player’s life total is at 0 or less when state-based actions are checked. So even if, in the above example, you have 100 creatures and I still only have five, the game will still be a draw., even though you’re at -97 and I’m at -3.<\/p>\n
I suppose this should be a cautionary tale: be careful when you make a deal with Rakdos. Then again, as long as my friends keep playing token decks, I guess I don’t really have much of a choice, do I?<\/p>\n
Today’s Rules Tip written by Nathan Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although I’m not a Rakdos guy (I’m crazy, but not that crazy), is one of my favorite new charms. And it’s mostly because of the third mode: each creature deals 1 damage to its controller. It’s not an effect you see a lot of, especially at instant speed. However, you should be careful when using […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[922],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-basedactions","tag-rakdos-charm","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}