The Countdown Is at One
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Unstable #80 (rare)
- Price
- $0.24 USD
Players play a Magic subgame, starting at 1 life and using their libraries as their decks. For the rest of the main game, if a source would deal damage to a player who didn't win the subgame, it deals double that damage to that player instead.
The Countdown Is at One has 2 printings, first in Unstable (2017). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: not legal
- legacy: not legal
- vintage: not legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Rulings
- : To play a Magic subgame, all players start a new game, using their libraries as their decks. No other cards, tokens, emblems, or anything else from the main game are included in the subgame.
- : If a player has fewer than seven cards in their main-game library, they’ll lose the subgame as it begins, regardless of how many mulligans that player takes.
- : If the subgame is a draw, no player won the subgame, so damage dealt to any player in the main game will be doubled.
- : After the subgame ends, all players shuffle their cards from the subgame to reform their main-game libraries, and they return to the main game from the point they left off, with The Countdown Is at One finishing resolving.