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Cannibal <cannibal@cox.net> wrote:
> pretty sure thatthis question has come up before... but i don't know
> the answer....
>
> i have a deck that has muderous betrayal in it and it has worship.
Murderous Betrayal
{B}{B}{B}
Enchantment
{B}{B}, Pay half your life rounded up: Destroy target nonblack creature.
It can't be regenerated.
Worship
{3}{W}
Enchantment
If you control a creature, damage that would reduce your life total to
less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.
> i'm trying to figure out the "pay life" aspect vs the effect of the
> worship.
There is no relevance.
> i use the murderous betrayal to the point where i am at 1 life. if i
> use it again will i die, or will worship keep me alive (providing i
> meet the criteria that worship requires...)?
If you use it again, you will die. Half your life rounded up would be
1. Paying that reduces your life total to 0.
102.1. If a player's life total is 0 or less, he or she loses the game
the next time a player would receive priority. (This is a state-based
effect. See rule 420.)
I see nothing about Worship which might interfere with this process.
Worship only influences the consequences of DAMAGE.
Damage
Damage can be dealt to creatures and/or players.
Damage dealt to a player is subtracted from his or her life total.
Damage dealt to a creature stays on the permanent until end of
turn, even if it stops being a creature. A creature with damage greater
than or equal to its toughness has been dealt lethal damage and is
destroyed. (See rule 420, "State-Based Effects.") Damage doesn't alter a
creature's toughness. A noncreature permanent isn't affected by damage
(but if it becomes a creature again before the damage is removed, the
creature may be destroyed). During the cleanup step, all damage is
removed from permanents.
Costs and effects that read "lose life" or "pay life" don't deal
damage, and that loss of life can't be prevented or otherwise altered by
damage-prevention effects.
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