Everlasting Torment
- Mana cost
- {2}{B/R}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Commander 2016 #233 (rare)
- Price
- $2.09 USD
Players can't gain life.
Damage can't be prevented.
All damage is dealt as though its source had wither. (A source with wither deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Everlasting Torment has 3 printings, first in Shadowmoor (2008). EDHREC ranks it #5,228 among Commander cards. It appears most in Auntie Ool, Cursewretch decks (18,079 on EDHREC). 2 public decks on TCG run it. It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Everlasting Torment
- Blight Curse - Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Deck, led by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
- Open Hostility - Commander 2016, led by Saskia the Unyielding
Commanders that run Everlasting Torment most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Auntie Ool, Cursewretch: 18,079 decks
- The Scorpion God: 2,243 decks
- The Great Goblin: 546 decks
- Xira, the Golden Sting: 212 decks
- Kaervek the Merciless: 111 decks
- Lyzolda, the Blood Witch: 35 decks
- Lady Orca: 6 decks
Often played with Everlasting Torment
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a cost includes life gain (like Invigorate's alternative cost does), that cost can't be paid.
- : Effects that would replace gaining life with some other effect won't be able to do anything because it's impossible for players to gain life.
- : Spells and abilities that replace or redirect damage aren't affected by Everlasting Torment's second ability. They'll work as normal.
- : The last ability affects all damage, whether it's dealt by creatures, other permanents, spells, or cards that aren't on the battlefield. Wither works everywhere.
- : If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, and that number is higher than your current life total, that effect will normally cause you to gain life equal to the difference. With Everlasting Torment on the battlefield, that part of the effect won't do anything. (If the number is lower than your current life total, the effect will work as normal.)
- : Effects that replace an event with gaining life (like Words of Worship's effect does) will end up replacing the event with nothing.
- : The "damage can't be prevented" statement overrides all forms of preventing damage, including protection abilities. Damage prevention spells and abilities can still be cast and played; they just don't do anything.
- : Spells and abilities that would normally cause a player to gain life still resolve, but the life-gain part simply has no effect.