Fortune Thief
- Mana cost
- {4}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Human Rogue
- Power / toughness
- 0 / 1
- Set
- Time Spiral #156 (rare)
- Price
- $0.68 USD
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
Morph {R}{R} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Fortune Thief has 2 printings, first in Time Spiral (2006). EDHREC ranks it #13,467 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods decks (1,385 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Fortune Thief most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods: 1,385 decks
- Heartless Hidetsugu: 1,122 decks
- Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence: 1,042 decks
- Daredevil, Fearless Fighter: 797 decks
- Kaust, Eyes of the Glade: 535 decks
- Stick, Fearless Mentor: 7 decks
- Jack of Hearts, Volatile Hero
Often played with Fortune Thief
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If your life total is less than 1 but you've somehow avoided losing the game, Fortune Thief's effect won't apply at all if you're dealt damage.
- : Fortune Thief's effect applies only if your life total is being reduced by damage. Other effects or costs (such as losing or paying life) can reduce your life total below 1 as normal.
- : Fortune Thief's effect is not a prevention effect. It stops unpreventable damage from reducing your life total below 1.
- : Fortune Thief doesn't change how much damage is dealt; it just changes how much life that damage makes you lose. Abilities such as lifelink will see the full amount of damage being dealt.
- : Fortune Thief won't prevent you from losing the game if your life total becomes 0 or less or if some other effect causes you to lose the game.