Phyrexian Unlife
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: {2}{W}
Oracle Rules Text: You don't lose the game for having 0 or less life. As long as you have 0 or less life, all damage is dealt to you as though its source had infect. (Damage is dealt to you in the form of poison counters.)
Set: New Phyrexia (#18), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Jason Chan
Enchantment
White
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Official Rulings (4)
2011-06-01
If you’re at 0 or less life and Phyrexian Unlife leaves the battlefield, you’ll lose the game (unless some other effect is keeping you from losing).
2011-06-01
You can still lose the game for other reasons, including having ten or more poison counters or drawing a card from a library with no cards in it.
2011-06-01
If you’re at 0 or less life, you can’t pay any amount of life except 0.
2011-06-01
Phyrexian Unlife won’t affect damage that reduces your life total from a positive number to 0 or less. For example, if you’re at 3 life and are dealt 5 damage, you’ll end up at -2 life. The next time you’re dealt damage, it will be dealt as though its source had infect.
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