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Intervention Pact
Instant
rare
The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. You gain life equal to the damage prevented this way. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay . If you don't, you lose the game.
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Cards that directly win the game or threaten to end it quickly. Includes 'you win the game' effects and massive threats.
Cards that directly win the game or threaten to end it quickly. Includes 'you win the game' effects and massive threats.
Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.
Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.
Triggers or payoffs when you gain life — not just life gain itself, but caring about it.
A keyword ability that causes a player to gain life. See rule 702.15, “Lifelink.”
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Printings (1)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Sight#8 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Rules
Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller to gain that much life, in addition to the damage’s other results.
Finally, the damage event occurs.
A keyword counter on a permanent or on a card in a zone other than the battlefield causes that object to gain that keyword. The keywords that a keyword counter can be are flying, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, decayed, exalted, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, shadow, trample, and vigilance, as well as any variants of those keywords. See rule 613.1f.
Lifelink
Lifelink is a static ability.
Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes). See rule 120.3.
If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had lifelink.
The lifelink rules function no matter what zone an object with lifelink deals damage from.
Rulings
The delayed triggered ability will trigger regardless of whether any damage is actually prevented.
Although originally printed with a characteristic-defining ability that defined its color, this card now has a color indicator. This color indicator can’t be affected by text-changing effects (such as the one created by Crystal Spray), although color-changing effects can still overwrite it.