Printings
Phyrexian Unlife
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: New Phyrexia (NPH)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 18
Oracle 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.)
Format Legalities
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Card Rulings
- June 1, 2011
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).
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
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.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
If you’re at 0 or less life, you can’t pay any amount of life except 0.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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