Phyrexian Unlife
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Wilds of Eldraine: Enchanting TalesWOT · #11
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.42 € · ★ 0.84 € · 0.66 $ · ★ 0.80 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card 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 legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Harry Conway
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-09-08
Flavour text
"While the realm's great minds quarreled over the strange eclipse, Locthwain fell to the invaders." —*Last Stand of the Realm*
Rulings
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).
If you’re at 0 or less life, you can’t pay any amount of life except 0.
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.
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.
