The Countdown Is at One

{3} {R} {R}

Sorceryrare

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.

Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing · The List (Unfinity Foil Edition) · #28

Rulings for The Countdown Is at One

2018-01-19
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.

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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.

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

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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.

All Printings

The List (Unfinity Foil Edition)#282022rare Unstable#802017rare

Format Legality

Duelnot legal

Brawlnot legal

Pennynot legal

Predhnot legal

Futurenot legal

Legacynot legal

Modernnot legal

Paupernot legal

Alchemynot legal

Pioneernot legal

Vintagenot legal

Historicnot legal

Standardnot legal

Timelessnot legal

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