The Countdown Is at One
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
UnstableUST · #80
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · ★ 0.56 € · 0.27 $ · ★ 0.35 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Players play a Magic subgame, starting at 1 life and using their libraries as their decks. For the rest of the main game, if a source would deal damage to a player who didn't win the subgame, it deals double that damage to that player instead.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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
- Jesper Ejsing
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-12-08
Rulings
After the subgame ends, all players shuffle their cards from the subgame to reform their main-game libraries, and they return to the main game from the point they left off, with The Countdown Is at One finishing resolving.
If a player has fewer than seven cards in their main-game library, they’ll lose the subgame as it begins, regardless of how many mulligans that player takes.
If the subgame is a draw, no player won the subgame, so damage dealt to any player in the main game will be doubled.
To play a Magic subgame, all players start a new game, using their libraries as their decks. No other cards, tokens, emblems, or anything else from the main game are included in the subgame.
