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The Countdown Is at One

ustUnstable#80rare
{3}{R}{R}
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2 printings across 2 sets
Printings
2 total
Unstable#80
2017 · Jesper Ejsing
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The List (Unfinity Foil Edition)#28
2022 · Jesper Ejsing
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Card details
Artist
Jesper Ejsing
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
silver
Security stamp
oval
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderNot legal
DuelNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyNot legal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageNot legal
Oracle text

Sorcery

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.

Abilities
SpellPlayers 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.
Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Jesper Ejsing
Rulings
  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    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.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    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.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    If the subgame is a draw, no player won the subgame, so damage dealt to any player in the main game will be doubled.

  • WotCJan 19, 2018

    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.