Rush of dread
Rush of dread immediately kid me In The game period I was at at 16 health, I did use the life drain ability to take health and give myself health. Half of 16 should have been 8. How did I instantly lose. This makes no sense
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bonsai#70698
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Yep, per Rezzahan there was a Bloodletter of Aclazotz https://scryfall.com/card/lci/92/bloodletter-of-aclazotz on the board when Rush of Dread's third ability was cast so it didn't matter what your life total was. It's a 2-card insta-kill. Rush of Dread "takes half" and Bloodletter doubles that half to a whole.
This is an example of a "blind 2-card combo" that shouldn't exist, but sadly does (atm) in Standard.
Generally speaking, it's poor game design to include percentage effects due to their ease of abuse. Go incremental or go home.
Unfortunately, Magic has a history of this and in Standard atm there are many such cards. Tifa Lockhart https://scryfall.com/card/fin/206/tifa-lockhart is another example where its power is not incremented by a fixed amount--it's doubled of whatever it previously was.
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Rezzahan#77802
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Bloodletter of Aclazotz