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Heartwarming Redemption

Heartwarming Redemption

Instant

uncommon

Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards plus one. You gain life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

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Semantic Tags

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Card Drawvector

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Cards that directly win the game or threaten to end it quickly. Includes 'you win the game' effects and massive threats.

Life Gainmechanical

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.

Lifelinkvector

A keyword ability that causes a player to gain life. See rule 702.15, “Lifelink.”

Draw-then-discard or discard-then-draw effects that improve hand quality without net card advantage.

Draw-then-discard or discard-then-draw effects that improve hand quality without net card advantage.

Wheelsvector

Makes all players discard their hand and draw a new one. Named after Wheel of Fortune.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
War of the Spark#199uncommon···

Related Rules

120.3f

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.

120.4d

Finally, the damage event occurs.

122.1b

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.

702.15

Lifelink

702.15a

Lifelink is a static ability.

702.15b

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.

702.15c

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.

702.15d

The lifelink rules function no matter what zone an object with lifelink deals damage from.

Rulings

2019-05-03

If you have no cards in hand as Heartwarming Redemption resolves, you discard nothing then draw one card.

2019-05-03

The amount of life you gain is determined after you draw during Heartwarming Redemption’s resolution. No player may take actions between the time cards are drawn and the time you gain life.