Stunning Reversal

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Name	Stunning Reversal
Type	Instant
Description	The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1. Exile Stunning Reversal.
Flavor	The line between victory and defeat can be as slim as a razor's edge.
Artist	Zoltan Boros
Set	Battlebond #51
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Stunning Reversal

Stunning Reversal, Instant, designed by Zoltan Boros first released in Jun, 2018 in the set Battlebond. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 46.94. It's a key card in 2 combos.

Stunning Reversal is particularly beneficial in decks that focus on stalling or controlling the game, such as Black Control or Combo decks, where the player may find themselves low on life but still has a strong hand or game plan. It can be especially effective in decks that utilize life gain or have ways to protect themselves after drawing cards, allowing for a potential comeback. While there are other options like Plunge into Darkness or Doomsday that can achieve similar effects, Stunning Reversal's unique ability to draw seven cards while ensuring you stay in the game at 1 life makes it a valuable and interesting choice. Given its potential for card advantage and game-saving ability, it should see play in the right archetypes, particularly in casual or combo-oriented formats.

Rules

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If an effect says that an opponent wins the game, Stunning Reversal’s effect doesn’t apply.

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If you have fewer than seven cards in your library, you’ll lose the game immediately after applying Stunning Reversal’s replacement effect.

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In a Two-Headed Giant game, if a rule or effect says that your team or your teammate loses the game, your team won’t lose the game, but only you draw seven cards and only you gain or lose life to make your team’s life total become 1.

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Stunning Reversal’s effect applies any time you would lose the game, even if you’re not losing due to your life total being 0 or less.

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While the replacement effect it creates lasts until end of turn (or until the event it replaces), Stunning Reversal is exiled as it resolves.

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