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But what truly makes it legendary is its cycling ability

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Aerith's last ability checks at the moment it would trigger to see if you gained life this turn

And the answer to that is, shockingly, yes it is

The result of this interaction was previously unintuitive to many players: since that Saga had no chapter abilities, the game defined the "greatest number among its chapter abilities" as zero, and no matter how many lore counters that Saga had on it, it would be sacrificed as a state-based action once it wasn't the source of a chapter ability on the stack (usually right away)