Make Yourself Useful — ruling 1

If the target creature isn’t destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you won’t gain any life. The same is true if the target creature leaves the battlefield before this scheme’s triggered ability resolves.

Make Yourself Useful : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Make Yourself Useful is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

When you set this scheme in motion, destroy target creature an opponent controls. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

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Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1June 13, 2017· Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature isn’t destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you won’t gain any life. The same is true if the target creature leaves the battlefield before this scheme’s triggered ability resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.