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    Axis of Mortality

    Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

    EDHREC Rank #11,445
    At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

    The Church of Dusk teaches there is no gain without loss, no triumph without sacrifice, no drink of exquisite crimson without a dying gasp.

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    In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player is considered to have the same life total as their team. If the two targeted players are on different teams, those players gain or lose the appropriate amount of life so that the teams end up exchanging life totals. If the two targeted players are teammates, they can’t exchange life totals.

    Sep 29, 2017

    When the life totals are exchanged, each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player’s previous life total. For example, if player A has 5 life and player B has 3 life before the exchange, player A will lose 2 life and player B will gain 2 life. Replacement effects may modify these gains and losses, and triggered abilities may trigger on them.

    Sep 29, 2017

    If one of the targeted players is an illegal target when the triggered ability of Axis of Mortality tries to resolve, the exchange won’t happen. Neither player’s life total will change.

    Sep 29, 2017

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    Axis of Mortality — Ixalan
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    Axis of Mortality — Ixalan Promos
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    Ixalan Promos