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<\/p>Quick question: What\u2019s the difference between damage and loss of life?<\/p>\n
As you can see from the cards above, whether an effect deals damage or just causes loss of life is dependent on the specific wording of the effect. When an effect \u201cdeals damage\u201d, it causes loss of life (barring weird exceptions like infect), but it\u2019s also affected by other things that affect damage; it can be prevented, for example, by something like Security Blockade<\/a>, and if it\u2019s noncombat damage, it can also be redirected from a player to a planeswalker that player controls.<\/p>\n Effects that state a player \u201closes life,\u201d though, aren\u2019t damage. They don\u2019t cause damage, and they don\u2019t get affected by anything that specifically cares about damage. Extort, for example, will bleed your opponent out right through a Security Blockade…but it also can\u2019t be redirected to a planeswalker. Because the word \u201cdamage\u201d doesn\u2019t appear anywhere in the rules text of extort, it can\u2019t be redirected, even though all the other requirements (noncombat source affecting a player) are met.<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quick question: What\u2019s the difference between damage and loss of life? As you can see from the cards above, whether an effect deals damage or just causes loss of life is dependent on the specific wording of the effect. When an effect \u201cdeals damage\u201d, it causes loss of life (barring weird exceptions like infect), but […]<\/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":[20,8],"tags":[891],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-triggeredabilities","tag-extort","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}