Dark Confidant & Split Cards

[Reverend Damaged]

I have a Dark Confidant in play and I reveal the top card of my library. The card is Assault/Battery (obviously this never really happened :-)). Do I choose which card to lose the life from? Do I lose life for both sides of the card? How does this work?

I did a search on here and couldn't find anything to do with Dark Confidant & Split Cards, so I thought I'd ask.

[Joe_C]

you would lose life equal to the total converted mana cost for the card. In example, revealing fire/ice would cause you to lose 4 life

[Pinder]

Two more questions regarding split cards:

If I've got a Magnivore and, say, Boom/Bust in the yard, does it see it as two sorceries or just one for P/T purposes? I'm fairly sure it's just one, but I figured I'd check just to make sure.

Also, when you serach your library for something with a specific casting cost (like for Transmute, etc.), do you look at the combined mana cost when searching or can you grab it if either half matches?

[cdr]

Split cards are really easy to understand once you know the trick:


505.5 An effect that asks for a particular characteristic of a split card while it's in a zone other than the stack gets two answers (one for each of the split card's two halves).

Dark Confidant's effect gets two answers for Assault/Battery's converted mana cost - 1 and 4. You lose 1 life and 4 life.

An effect like transmute or Counterbalance gets two answers, so either half can match.

Also,

505.4 Although split cards have two playable halves, each split card is only one card.

[Pinder]

505.4 Although split cards have two playable halves, each split card is only one card.

:frown:

The transmute thing is good to know, though. Thanks!