If a player can’t gain life, that player can’t exchange life totals with a player with a higher life total. If a player can’t lose life, that player can’t exchange life totals with a player with a lower life total. In either of these cases, neither player’s life total will change.
When the life totals are exchanged, each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player’s previous life total. For example, if Player A has 5 life and Player B has 3 life before the exchange, Player A will lose 2 life and Player B will gain 2 life. Replacement effects may modify these gains and losses, and triggered abilities may trigger on them.
In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player is considered to have the same life total as their team. If the two targeted players are on different teams, the teams will end up exchanging life totals. If the two targeted players are teammates, nothing will happen.
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This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from NPH — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil 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 #158 of *New Phyrexia*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2011 New Phyrexia release.
Card type: Artifact, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {6} (6 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #12,549 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Brad Rigney. Rarix catalogs 128 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Brad Rigney
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If one of the targeted players is an illegal target when the activated ability tries to resolve, the exchange won’t happen. Neither player’s life total will change.
