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Alliances (ALL | #18 | 1996-06-10)
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Sustaining Spirit

1W
Creature — Angel Spirit
Artist: Rebecca Guay

Cumulative upkeep 1W (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 reduces it to 1 instead.

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$1.60 cheapest print

Prices

Set # Treatment Finish Price (USD)
Alliances 18 Regular Nonfoil $1.60

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Printings (2)

Sustaining Spirit — Alliances
Alliances
#18 Rare $1.60
Regular Nonfoil
Rebecca Guay
Sustaining Spirit — Masters Edition II
Masters Edition II
#36 Rare —
Regular Nonfoil Foil
Rebecca Guay

Rulings

2008-10-01 wotc
The second ability is not a prevention effect. It stops unpreventable damage from reducing your life total below 1.
2008-10-01 wotc
The second ability applies only if your life total is being reduced by damage. Other effects or costs (such as “lose 1 life” or “pay 1 life”) can reduce your life total below 1 as normal.
2008-10-01 wotc
The ability doesn’t change how much damage is dealt; it just changes how much life that damage makes you lose. An effect such as Spirit Link will see the full amount of damage being dealt.
2008-10-01 wotc
Sustaining Spirit won’t prevent you from losing the game if your life total is 0 or less or some other effect causes you to lose the game.
2008-10-01 wotc
Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it’s not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can’t be made. For example, if a permanent with “cumulative upkeep {1}” has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.
2008-10-01 wotc
If an effect asks you to pay life, you can’t pay more life than you have.
2004-10-04 wotc
Does not affect damage if you are already at zero or negative life. You still take it all.

Format Legality

Tlr Legal
Standard Not Legal
Future Not Legal
Historic Not Legal
Timeless Not Legal
Gladiator Not Legal
Pioneer Not Legal
Modern Not Legal
Legacy Legal
Pauper Not Legal
Vintage Legal
Penny Legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standardbrawl Not Legal
Brawl Not Legal
Alchemy Not Legal
Paupercommander Not Legal
Duel Legal
Oldschool Not Legal
Premodern Legal
Predh Legal