Does Safe Passage prevent Greed's pay life?

Asked by Marzeko 5 years ago

If I use Safe passage on my turn, then activate greed's ability, will I still lose life?

FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #1

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Safe Passage
Greed

Safe passage will not save you from Greed's activation cost because Greed does not do damage, you pay life. Damage causes loss of life, but loss of life isn't damage. Furthermore, because the payment of life is in the cost side of the ability, if you can't pay the life because you don't have the life or something is preventing you from doing so (like say, Platinum Emperion) then you cannot activate the ability.

July 16, 2018 6:30 p.m.

Marzeko says... #2

Thank you for the answer! I will be sure to use double brackets for future posts.

July 16, 2018 7:14 p.m.