Fortune Thief
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Time SpiralTSP · #156
- Card type
- Creature — Human Rogue
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.33 € · ★ 1.05 € · 0.67 $ · ★ 4.50 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead. Morph (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for . Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Christopher Moeller
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2006-10-06
Rulings
Fortune Thief doesn't change how much damage is dealt; it just changes how much life that damage makes you lose. Abilities such as lifelink will see the full amount of damage being dealt.
Fortune Thief won't prevent you from losing the game if your life total becomes 0 or less or if some other effect causes you to lose the game.
Fortune Thief's effect applies only if your life total is being reduced by damage. Other effects or costs (such as losing or paying life) can reduce your life total below 1 as normal.
Fortune Thief's effect is not a prevention effect. It stops unpreventable damage from reducing your life total below 1.
If your life total is less than 1 but you've somehow avoided losing the game, Fortune Thief's effect won't apply at all if you're dealt damage.
