Nine Lives
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{W}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Through the Omenpaths Bonus Sheet #3 (rare)
Hexproof
If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment.
When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it.
When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.
Nine Lives has 8 printings, first in Core Set 2021 (2020). EDHREC ranks it #6,343 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zedruu the Greathearted decks (9,289 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Nine Lives most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zedruu the Greathearted: 9,289 decks
- Iroh, Tea Master: 2,650 decks
- Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant: 1,782 decks
- Rin and Seri, Inseparable: 1,476 decks
- Inniaz, the Gale Force: 705 decks
- Zidane, Tantalus Thief: 184 decks
- Melira, the Living Cure: 13 decks
- Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield: 9 decks
Often played with Nine Lives
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If more than one source deals damage to you at once, prevent the damage from each of them and put that many incarnation counters on Nine Lives, even if this causes more than nine incarnation counters to be on Nine Lives. Leave it to cats to abuse loopholes.
- : Once the first triggered ability is on the stack, it won't trigger again, even if more damage is prevented and more incarnation counters are put onto it.
- : If you counter the first triggered ability or otherwise remove it from the stack, it will just trigger again immediately if Nine Lives still has nine or more incarnation counters on it.
- : The last ability of Nine Lives triggers no matter how it leaves the battlefield.
- : If damage that a source would deal to you can't be prevented, you still put an incarnation counter on Nine Lives.