Havoc Festival

set	min	mtgo
-	3.31	0.02 tix

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Name	Havoc Festival
Type	Enchantment
Description	Players can't gain life. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses half their life, rounded up.
Flavor	"We can't control enemies who have no regard for their own survival." —Arrester Lavinia, Tenth Precinct
Artist	Johannes Voss
Set	Return to Ravnica #166
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Havoc Festival

Havoc Festival, Enchantment, designed by Johannes Voss first released in Oct, 2012 in the set Return to Ravnica. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 3.31. It's a key card in 3 combos.

A deck that focuses on aggressive strategies and aims to quickly reduce the opponent's life total would benefit from including Havoc Festival, as it puts pressure on the opponent by preventing life gain and steadily decreasing their life total. However, there are more efficient cards like Sulfuric Vortex or Underworld Dreams that can achieve similar effects without the drawback of losing half of your own life each turn, making them better choices for competitive play. Havoc Festival could still see play in casual or themed decks looking to create a chaotic and high-risk environment.

Rules

10/01/12

If an effect says to set a player’s life total to a certain number and that number is higher than the player’s current life total, that part of the effect won’t do anything. (If the number is lower than the player’s current life total, the effect will work as normal.)

10/01/12

In a Two-Headed Giant game, the last ability triggers for each player. Any life loss is applied to the team’s life total. For example, if the team has 30 life, the first ability will cause the player (and thus the team) to lose 15 life and then the second ability will cause the other player (and thus the team) to lose 8 life. The team will end up having 7 life.

10/01/12

Spells and abilities that would cause a player to gain life still resolve, but the life-gain part has no effect.