This ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability triggers only if you have exactly 1 life as your upkeep begins, and (2) the ability does nothing if your life total is anything other than 1 by the time it resolves.
Near-Death Experience
In a Two-Headed Giant game, anything that cares about your life total checks your team’s life total. You’ll win the game if your team has exactly 1 life.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from V16 — 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 #10 of *From the Vault: Lore*, the set that shipped alongside the August 2016 From the Vault: Lore release.
Card type: Enchantment, color identity white, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {2}{W}{W}{W} (5 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #15,020 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott. Rarix catalogs 1,317 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Dan Murayama Scott
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