Rain of Gore + Purity

Asked by Warxuaroz 6 years ago

Just the interaction between those two cards -I have one of them in the field, my opponent has the other. What happens? In my understanding -nothing. Am I right?

BlueScope says... Accepted answer #1

Well, certainly not nothing. Rain of Gore doesn't care about anything until a player gains life, while Purity is much the same except it only cares about noncombat damage dealt to its controller.

If player A, who controls Purity, is dealt noncombat damage, its replacement effect will kick in and cause the ability to gain player A that much life instead. Now, Rain of Gore will interfere and cause player A to lose that much life instead. If you meant that they will end up at the same life total one way or the other, you're likely correct, but there are a lot of smaller differences that may or may not matter, for example that while originally, player A was dealt damage, now they now "only" lose life.

August 2, 2017 8:46 a.m.

Neotrup says... #2

Which can make a bit of a difference. If the controller of Purity was being targeted by an activation of Fallen Ferromancer they will now lose 1 life instead of gaining 1 poison counter. The other situation worth noting is what happens if the controller of Purity tries gaining life. They will instead lose that much life because of Rain of Gore and the interaction will stop there, because Purity is looking for damage, not loss of life, so it can't replace the new event.

August 2, 2017 10:14 a.m.

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