Stunning Reversal — ruling 1

If each player would lose the game at the same time, but Stunning Reversal’s effect applies to you losing the game, you win the game as soon as everyone else has lost the game. This is true even if you’d lose the game immediately afterwards, perhaps because you don’t have seven cards in your library to draw or because you couldn’t gain life to raise your life total to 1.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 2

While the replacement effect it creates lasts until end of turn (or until the event it replaces), Stunning Reversal is exiled as it resolves.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 3

If an effect says you can’t lose the game, Stunning Reversal’s effect can’t apply.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 4

If an effect says that an opponent wins the game, Stunning Reversal’s effect doesn’t apply.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 5

Stunning Reversal’s effect does nothing if you concede the game. A player who concedes leaves the game.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 6

Stunning Reversal’s effect applies any time you would lose the game, even if you’re not losing due to your life total being 0 or less.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 7

For your life total to become 1, you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Stunning Reversal’s effect applies, it will cause you to lose 3 life; alternatively, if your life total is -5 when it applies, it will cause you to gain 6 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.

Stunning Reversal — ruling 8

If you have fewer than seven cards in your library, you’ll lose the game immediately after applying Stunning Reversal’s replacement effect.

Stunning Reversal : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Stunning Reversal 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

The next time you would lose the game this turn, instead draw seven cards and your life total becomes 1. Exile Stunning Reversal.

How it works : Stunning Reversal

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
If each player would lose the game at the same time, but Stunning Reversal’s effect applies to you losing the game, you win the game as soon as everyone else has lost the game. This is true even if you’d lose the game immediately afterwards, perhaps because you don’t have seven cards in your library to draw or because you couldn’t gain life to raise your life total to 1.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#2June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
While the replacement effect it creates lasts until end of turn (or until the event it replaces), Stunning Reversal is exiled as it resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#3June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect says you can’t lose the game, Stunning Reversal’s effect can’t apply.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#4June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect says that an opponent wins the game, Stunning Reversal’s effect doesn’t apply.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#5June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
Stunning Reversal’s effect does nothing if you concede the game. A player who concedes leaves the game.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#6June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
Stunning Reversal’s effect applies any time you would lose the game, even if you’re not losing due to your life total being 0 or less.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#7June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
For your life total to become 1, you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Stunning Reversal’s effect applies, it will cause you to lose 3 life; alternatively, if your life total is -5 when it applies, it will cause you to gain 6 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#8June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
If you have fewer than seven cards in your library, you’ll lose the game immediately after applying Stunning Reversal’s replacement effect.
No other card is named in this ruling.
#9June 8, 2018· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, if a rule or effect says that your team or your teammate loses the game, your team won’t lose the game, but only you draw seven cards and only you gain or lose life to make your team’s life total become 1.
No other card is named in this ruling.