Historic card interaction possibly acting out of the norm.
I was playing a historic game today and had a pretty decent setup using solemnity and nine lives to stall and prevent damage. however my opponent played the scarab god card and the X damage dealt at the beginning of their turn was able to hit through nine lives. nothing on the field had any rules text that nullified the effect of nine lives and any other damage source was correctly blocked by it. So I'm wondering if the scarab gods damage just isn't considered a damage source which would be strange considering all other damage effects from creatures don't share the same ability to bypass nine lives.
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
The Scafrab God's trigger doesn't deal damage, it causes you to lose life, the two are quite different things. Damage to a player usually (but not always) causes loss of life, but loss of life itself is not damage.