Life or Death

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Card number 895

Rarity
95
Buy
313
Sell
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As spells can be played at any time, it's often seen played before the start of its owner's turn for an effect similar to that of Speed Summon.
This is frequently used to play monsters that have been discarded, adding to the surprise value.
Ignores 'Into play' abilities, making it less useful for cards which draw or set their stats when played.
Costs the same amount of mana no matter how expensive the monster you bring into play costs.
When you're near death, there's little difference between losing 21 health and losing 210 health, so this makes a good last resort card, worthy of its name.
One of the four Mechanical Chaos cards with a 50% chance to produce a huge positive effect, and a 50% chance to produce a huge negative effect. The other three are Cruelty or Mercy, Fortune or Bust, and Time Coin.

Oct 20th, 2006: Card released in Mechanical Chaos.
Feb 12th, 2007: Card changed in error to revive target monster 51% of the time instead of 50%.
Sep 9th, 2007: Details in forum post
May 2nd, 2008: Details in forum post
Sep 21st, 2008: Details in forum post
Jan 29th, 2010: Card fixed to have ability trigger 50% of the time instead of 51%.