<p>Here are the relevant Comprehensive Rules:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>104.3c If a player is required to draw more cards than are left in his or her library, he or she draws the remaining cards, and then loses the game the next time a player would receive priority. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Nothing happens until a player would get priority, so the order in which the players drew the cards doesn't matter.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>704.4. Unlike triggered abilities, state-based actions pay no attention to what happens during the resolution of a spell or ability.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>All the SBAs are performed simultaneously.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>704.3. Whenever a player would get priority (see rule 116, “Timing and Priority”), the game checks for any of the listed conditions for state-based actions, then performs all applicable state-based actions simultaneously as a single event. [...]</p>
</blockquote>

<p>All the players would lose simultaneously if it were not for the following exception:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>104.4a If all the players remaining in a game lose simultaneously, the game is a draw</p>
</blockquote>

<p>In both cases, the game ends in a draw. Because the rules pay no attention to what's happening during the spell's resolution, having more cards doesn't protect you in this case. As soon as state-based actions are checked (i.e. after the spell resolves) you both lose the game at the same time and it's therefore a draw.</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2014-02-17T19:10:29.263Z
2014-02-17T20:03:03.743Z
2014-02-17T20:03:03.743Z
Discord
<p>What happens if both players have only 3 cards in their library and I cast <a href="http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202558">Wheel of Fortune</a> (Each player discards his/her hand and draws seven cards) ?</p>

<p>Is it any different if one player has 1 card and the other player has 3 ?</p>

CC BY-SA 3.0
2014-02-17T20:03:54.230Z
The active player performs all his draws before the next player performs his. (But it doesn't matter here.)
ikegami
<magic-the-gathering>
Not enough cards for both players when casting Wheel of Fortune
Autar
# Not enough cards for both players when casting Wheel of Fortune

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-17)

What happens if both players have only 3 cards in their library and I cast [Wheel of Fortune](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202558) (Each player discards his/her hand and draws seven cards) ?

Is it any different if one player has 1 card and the other player has 3 ?

**Tags:** magic-the-gathering

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The active player performs all his draws before the next player performs his. (But it doesn't matter here.)  

---

## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-02-17. Score: 12 | Accepted answer

Here are the relevant Comprehensive Rules:

> 104.3c If a player is required to draw more cards than are left in his or her library, he or she draws the remaining cards, and then loses the game the next time a player would receive priority. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)

Nothing happens until a player would get priority, so the order in which the players drew the cards doesn't matter.

> 704.4. Unlike triggered abilities, state-based actions pay no attention to what happens during the resolution of a spell or ability.

All the SBAs are performed simultaneously.

> 704.3. Whenever a player would get priority (see rule 116, “Timing and Priority”), the game checks for any of the listed conditions for state-based actions, then performs all applicable state-based actions simultaneously as a single event. [...]

All the players would lose simultaneously if it were not for the following exception:

> 104.4a If all the players remaining in a game lose simultaneously, the game is a draw

In both cases, the game ends in a draw. Because the rules pay no attention to what's happening during the spell's resolution, having more cards doesn't protect you in this case. As soon as state-based actions are checked (i.e. after the spell resolves) you both lose the game at the same time and it's therefore a draw.


---

