I am positive this has been asked before, so hopefully a correct answer is easy. If you Steal Essence an ally with 1 life, do you gain 2 or 1 life back?

This is something im curious about also. Also wondered about how much dmg is done by combat also. For example: If the attacker has 4 atk and the defender has 2 life, does 4 dmg get dealt or 2. and if thats the case, all that I would need to keep him alive is a heal for 2. But I assume that 4 dmg is dealt, otherwise that would suck in certain cases.

This is an important issue for some cards, like sword of zeal, mind blast ect...
I hope someone has an awnser for this issue.

For anything that is dependent on the number of dmg dealt, it deals the full damage. So zeal versus a 1 life opponent will deal two dmg to it, its the same with mind blast, steal essence, etc.

The damage dealt to a target is not restricted by the target's life.

Terias is correct. The reason is an ally can take more damage than the printed damage, if it receives fatal damage, it is destroyed during pre-priority processing (ppp)

The key here is that the damage is put into packets. Each source of damage has its own packet and deals that much damage.


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