whenever you gain life cards mtg What counts as "gaining life" : r/mtg Linden life gain and exemplar

If a creature with an ability that triggers when that creature dies or leaves the battlefield loses that ability and is then destroyed, that ability will not trigger

It is going to be played in a huge number of decks, however, and help keep some of those new archetypes in line

WotC tends to stay far away from these kinds of changes but did it pretty often back in the early days of Magic, mainly in the jump to Sixth Edition where a lot of cards were simplified

Of note, the 13 new rares from Eldrazi Incursion show up with the same art and treatment as you will find in their Commander deck due to Eldrazi already having a colorless transparent frame

(2008-10-01) The number of Saproling tokens created by the triggered ability is based on the number of +1/+1 counters on Mycoloth, not on the number of creatures Mycoloth devoured