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thriceinatrice asked: Suppose I control Transcendence, and my opponent controls Tainted Remedy. If I were to lose life, would this start a loop of life loss with no end point? Magic deals only in precise and numbers numbers, so I can't skip to having "negative infinity life" and I can't ignore an infinite regress of life loss and move on with the game. How do we resolve this?
This combination of cards will create an endless loop as follows:
- Transcendence’s controller loses some amount of life.
- Transcendence’s second triggered ability triggers. When the trigger resolves, Tainted Remedy’s replacement effect causes Transcendence’s controller to lose life instead of gaining life.
- Transcendence’s second triggered ability triggers. When the trigger resolves, Tainted Remedy’s replacement effect causes Transcendence’s controller to lose life instead of gaining life.
- Transcendence’s second triggered ability triggers…
- Because of Transcendence’s first ability, the player can’t lose the game from having a negative life total, so the loop goes on forever unless a player chooses to break it. (They’re not required to if they can, though.)
When the game enters an endless loop of mandatory actions like this, the game ends in a draw.
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