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Defiant Bloodlord

$0.34

Exquisite Blood

$15.48

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Defiant Bloodlord + Exquisite Blood

Overview

If you control Defiant Bloodlord and Exquisite Blood, any time you gain life the two cards create a repeating chain of triggered abilities: your life gain triggers Defiant Bloodlord (which causes an opponent to lose that much life), that loss triggers Exquisite Blood (which causes you to gain that much life), and the cycle repeats. The cycle continues until a life total change causes a player to have 0 or less life and lose the game; life changes are applied immediately as they occur , and life-gain triggers occur only for actual life gain events (not for 0) .

Step 1

You gain N life from some source; because you actually gained life this creates a triggered ability from Defiant Bloodlord (abilities that trigger on life gain are treated as triggered by the source of the life gain and trigger only if positive life was gained) .

Step 2

Defiant Bloodlord’s triggered ability is put on the stack and later resolves; when it resolves it causes target opponent to lose N life and that loss is applied immediately .

Step 3

That loss of N life caused by the resolved Bloodlord ability causes Exquisite Blood’s triggered ability (which triggers whenever an opponent loses life) to be put on the stack.

Step 4

When Exquisite Blood’s triggered ability resolves, you gain N life (that gain is applied immediately) which in turn triggers Defiant Bloodlord again and repeats the cycle.

Step 5

The cycle continues, producing pairs of triggers (Bloodlord causing opponent loss, Exquisite causing you to gain) until one of those losses reduces a player’s life total to 0 or less; when a Bloodlord resolution causes an opponent’s life total to be 0 or less, state-based actions will cause that player to lose the game before any Exquisite Blood trigger waiting on the stack resolves ; see Ruling [2012-05-01].

Resolution

The interaction produces a repeating series of triggered abilities that will continue until a player's life total becomes 0 or less as a result of one of the losses; when a Defiant Bloodlord trigger resolves and causes an opponent to have 0 or less life, state-based actions will cause that player to lose the game before the resulting Exquisite Blood trigger(s) can resolve ; also remember a life gain of 0 doesn’t trigger abilities that trigger on life gain . Ruling [2012-05-01] is directly relevant: if a life-loss event causes a player’s life total to be 0 or less, they lose the game before Exquisite Blood’s triggered ability can resolve.

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