This has the supertype world. When a world permanent enters, any world permanents that were already on the battlefield are put into their owners' graveyards. This is a state-based action called the "world rule." The new world permanent stays on the battlefield. If two world permanents enter at the same time, they're both put into their owners' graveyards.
Effects that replace an event with gaining life (like Words of Worship's effect does) will end up replacing the event with nothing.
Effects that would replace gaining life with some other effect won't be able to do anything because it's impossible for players to gain life.
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This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from WC97 — the lineup includes 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 #js125sb of *World Championship Decks 1997*, the set that shipped alongside the August 1997 World Championship Decks 1997 release.
Card type: World Enchantment, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{B} (3 converted).
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.
EDHrec ranks this card #14,209 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Kev Walker. Rarix catalogs 1,917 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Kev Walker
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If a cost includes life gain (like Invigorate's alternative cost does), that cost can't be paid.
If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, and that number is higher than your current life total, that effect will normally cause you to gain life equal to the difference. With Forsaken Wastes on the battlefield, that part of the effect won't do anything. (If the number is lower than your current life total, the effect will work as normal.)
The loss of life from targeting this card does not work until after this card enters, so you can counter it without losing life.
