Near-Death Experience
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
From the Vault: LoreV16 · #10
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 0.59 € · ★ 0.47 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- White
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have exactly 1 life, you win the game.
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
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-08-19
Flavour text
Lands ravaged, cities in ruins, so many lives sacrificed, and yet there was no other word for it but victory.
Rulings
In a Two-Headed Giant game, anything that cares about your life total checks your team’s life total. You’ll win the game if your team has exactly 1 life.
This ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability triggers only if you have exactly 1 life as your upkeep begins, and (2) the ability does nothing if your life total is anything other than 1 by the time it resolves.
