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Essence Pulse

Essence Pulse

Sorcery

rare

You gain 2 life. Each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

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Semantic Tags

Life Gainmechanical

Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.

Lifelinkvector

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

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (3)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Magic Online Promos#90086rare···
Commander 2021#366rare···
Commander 2021#39rare···

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

2021-04-16

This ability counts the total amount of life gained without considering any life you lost during that turn. For example, if you lost 3 life and gained 3 life earlier in the turn, you will gain 2 more life from Essence Pulse and each creature will get -5/-5.