Goat format ruling
Life Absorbing Machine
Card effect (current official text)During your Standby Phase, gain Life Points equal to half of the total Life Points you paid during your last turn.
Rulings
- The total LP you paid is defined as the LP paid for costs (both activation costs and maintenance costs) of cards. It does not include damage or loss of LP. Damage is not included even if the damage was caused by an effect you control, such as if you activate Ring of Destruction.
- In your last turn is defined as the period from the start of your previous turn’s DP to the end of that turn’s End Phase. Cost that you paid during your opponent’s turn that occurred between your last turn and the current turn are not included.
- The effect of Life Absorbing Machine increases your LP for each cost you paid separately. So if you had Fire Princess on the field, and you paid 2 costs during your last turn, Fire Princess will deal 1000 points of damage to the opponent.
- Life Absorbing Machine does not have to be applying at the time the LP were paid. If you pay a cost of 2000 LP during your turn, then activate Life Absorbing Machine during your opponent’s turn, the effect of Life Absorbing Machine will increase your LP by 1000 during your SP.
- Q: When do you receive the LP for the effect of "Life Absorbing Machine" and will multiple copies of "Life Absorbing Machine" be cumulative? A: The LP are gained during your SP. The effects will accumulate with multiple copies of "Life Absorbing Machine" in play. So if you had paid for "Imperial Order" during a previous turn and you have two "Life Absorbing Machine" applying, you would gain 350 LP from each of them.
- Q: Will "Life Absorbing Machine" repay half of the LP payment for Archfiends without "Pandemonium?" A: "Life Absorbing Machine" will repay you half of each payment made during your previous turn. This includes the Archfiends.
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