If you choose a target creature card in your graveyard and that card is an illegal target by the time the triggered ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve. You won't gain 3 life. If you don't choose a target at all, you just gain 3 life.
The triggered ability can target a creature card that was put into your graveyard as a result of state-based actions immediately after the combat damage that caused the ability to trigger.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from J12 — the lineup includes Foil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #7 of *Judge Gift Cards 2012*, the set that shipped alongside the January 2012 Judge Gift Cards 2012 release.
Card type: Artifact — Equipment, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {3} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Equip.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #2,186 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Mark Zug. Rarix catalogs 838 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Mark Zug
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