Even though your opponents can't lose the game, a player can't pay an amount of life that's greater than their life total. If a player's life total is 0 or less, that player can't pay life at all, with one exception: a player may always pay 0 life.
Other circumstances can still cause an opponent to lose the game, however. An opponent will lose a game if they concede, if that player is penalized with a Game Loss or a Match Loss during a sanctioned tournament due to a DCI rules infraction, or if that player's Magic Online® game clock runs out of time.
No game effect can cause you to win the game or cause any opponent to lose the game while you control Abyssal Persecutor. It doesn't matter whether an opponent has 0 or less life, an opponent is forced to draw a card while their library is empty, an opponent has ten or more poison counters, an opponent is dealt combat damage by Phage the Untouchable, you control Felidar Sovereign and have 40 or more life, or so on. You keep playing.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from LTC — the lineup includes Borderless 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 #525 of *Tales of Middle-earth Commander*, the set that shipped alongside the November 2023 Tales of Middle-earth Commander release.
Card type: Creature — Demon, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {2}{B}{B} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Flying and Trample.
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #6,356 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt. Rarix catalogs 191 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt
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If Abyssal Persecutor leaves the battlefield while an opponent has 0 or less life, that opponent will lose the game as a state-based action. No player can respond between the time Abyssal Persecutor leaves the battlefield and the time that player loses the game.
Effects that say the game is a draw, such as the _Legends_(TM) card Divine Intervention, are not affected by Abyssal Persecutor.
Abyssal Persecutor won't preclude an opponent's life total from reaching 0 or less. It will just preclude that player from losing the game as a result.
