Fated Firepower Does Not Interact With Scrawling Crawler
Scrawling Crawler (At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player loses 1 life)
and
Fated Firepower (Flash. This enchantment enters with X fire counters on it. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus an amount of damage equal to the number of fire counters on this enchantment instead)
Play scrawling Crawler and Fated Firepower at X >= 1, have opponent draw card.
Platform: PC
Only 1 life damage is dealt.
Damage is equal to 1 + X/fire counters.
I did not record or take a screenshot of this incident. I do not have enough copies of Fated firepower to recreate comfortably.
No workaround, rules error.
PlottingClone#84939
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Rezzahan#77802
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No rules error, except on your part.
Loss of life =/= damage
Damage to a player usually CAUSES loss of life, but loss of life can be achieved directly without damage being involved. And MANY cards do exactly that, causing loss of life directly without damage being involved. And only damage will be affected by Fated Firepower and similar replacement effects. There is no damage to increase with Scrawling Crawler, there is just loss of life.