Rule evolution

Rule 810.9d

Previously numbered 806.9d, 806.10d.

Earliest archived Rules release: 2009-10-01 · 2 wording revisions · 2 renumberings

  1. Earliest archived Rules release806.9dDetails
    If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0 in a Two-Headed Giant game, the player may do so only if his or her team's life total is greater than or equal to the total amount of life both team members are paying for that cost or effect. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from his or her team's life total. (Players can always pay 0 life.)
  2. Renumbered806.9d → 806.10dDetails

    Previously
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    806. Two-Headed Giant Variant

    Then
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    806. Two-Headed Giant Variant

    If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0 in a Two-Headed Giant game, the player may do so only if his or her team's life total is greater than or equal to the total amount of life both team members are paying for that cost or effect. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from his or her team's life total. (Players can always pay 0 life.)
  3. Wording changed806.10dDetails
    If a cost or effect allows a player to pay an amount of life greater than 0 in a Two-Headed Giant game, the player may do so only if his or her team's life total is greater than or equal to the total amount of life both team members are paying for that cost or effect. If an effect would set the life total of each player on a team to a number, that team chooses one of its members. If a player pays life, the payment is subtracted from his or her team's life total. On that team, only that player is affected. (Players can always pay 0 life.)Example: In a Two-Headed Giant game, one team has 7 life and the other team has 13 life. A player casts Repay in Kind, which reads, "Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players." Each team chooses one if its members to be affected. The result is that the chosen player on the team that has 13 life loses 6 life, so that team's life total winds up at 7.
  4. Renumbered806.10d → 810.9dDetails

    Previously
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    806. Two-Headed Giant Variant

    Then
    8. Multiplayer Rules
    810. Two-Headed Giant Variant

    If an effect would set the life total of each player on a team to a number, that team chooses one of its members. On that team, only that player is affected. Example: In a Two-Headed Giant game, one team has 7 life and the other team has 13 life. A player casts Repay in Kind, which reads, "Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players." Each team chooses one if its members to be affected. The result is that the chosen player on the team that has 13 life loses 6 life, so that team's life total winds up at 7.
  5. Wording changed810.9dDetails
    If an effect would set the life total of each player on a team to a number, that team chooses one of its members. On that team, only that player is affected. Example: In a Two-Headed Giant game, one team has 7 life and the other team has 13 life. A player casts Repay in Kind, which reads, "Each player's life total becomes the lowest life total among all players." Each team chooses one ifof its members to be affected. The result is that the chosen player on the team that has 13 life loses 6 life, so that team's life total winds up at 7.

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