Infinite Life?
Asked by Benmtgmage 8 years ago
Say I have Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood on the battlefield, and I tap my Soulmender to gain one life. Do I now have infinite life, while the opponent has negative infinite life, or does it have to be a number, say life 100,000,000, or 546,832,239, or 567?
Benmtgmage says... #2
Thanks Raging_Squiggle, that helps me in future duels.
February 7, 2016 7:51 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
FYI, there's no such thing as a "largest quantifiable number". Also, if you need to choose an incredibly large number it's best to choose one you can explain to your opponent.
February 7, 2016 11:23 p.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #4
I enjoy ridiculous facts. Lol. Take for example...
Now imagine that you stop the plane at some point, reach out the window, and grab one grain of sand to look at under a powerful microscope and what you see is that its actually not a single grain, but 10 billion microscopic grains wrapped in a membrane, all of which together is the size of a normal grain of sand. If that were the case for every single grain of sand in this hypothetical, if each were actually a bundle of 10 billion tinier grains, the total number of those microscopic grains would be a googol.
And just how long would it take to do that?
Well I just tested how fast a human can reasonably write zeros, and I wrote 36 zeros in 10 seconds. At that rate, if from the age of 5 to the age of 85, all I did for 16 hours a day, every single day, was write zeros at that rate, Id finish one half of a grain of sand in my lifetime. Youd need to dedicate two full human lives to finish one grain of sand. About 107 billion human beings have ever lived in the history of the species. If every single human dedicated every waking moment of their lives to writing zeros on grains of sand, as a species wed have by now filled a cube with a side of 1.7m, about the height of a human, with completed sand grains. Thats it.
February 8, 2016 2:53 a.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #5
Edit: It'd be fun to explain these to your opponents and watch their minds explode.
Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #1
Neither. You have exactly as much life as your opponent did upon gaining the 1 life. Your opponent loses because they are at 0 life.
If your opponent has Platinum Angel in play, the game is a draw because it's a mandatory infinite loop.
Also note that "infinite" is not a quantifiable number in Magic and cannot be represented by numbers. Use something like Graham's Number which is the largest quantifiable number out there.
February 7, 2016 4:12 p.m.