7 player Attack Left game. When we play Attack Left, you win the game when the person to your left dies. Couldn't find an official ruling on this, so for the sake of this discussion we'll say the rule is based on 104.2a; "A player still in the game wins the game if the player seated to that player's left has left the game. This happens immediately and overrides all effects that would preclude that player from winning the game."
Abyssal Persecutor is out, and 3 players, Player1, Player2 and Player4, have negative life totals.
Player1 destroys Abyssal Persecutor with Go for the Throat in Player2's turn.
Go for the Throat resolves, Abyssal Persecutor is removed from game. Player2 receives priority as it is his turn. State Based Action checks his life total, is is 0 or less, so he loses the game.
Does it then:
1) Player2 leaves the game, triggering the win condition for Player1. Game ends.
2) Player2 leaves the game, then state based actions follow around the table, resulting in Player4 and Player1 also leaving the game. Players 1, 3 and 7 should then win, except 1 is dead, so just 3 and 7 win?
The main argument here is 104.3f If a player would both win and lose the game simultaneously, that player loses the game. But is this a simultaneous win/lose for Player1, or does the win resolve before the lose condition reaches him?
State-based actions check certain losing conditions (and other things) simultaneously and for all players (C.R. 704.3, 704.5a). Once Abyssal Persecutor leaves the battlefield here, there's no longer an effect that keeps players from losing or winning the game in game terms (see also this thread). And the next time any player would get priority, state-based actions kick in for all players (C.R. 117.5). Thus, in this scenario, Players 1, 2, and 4 would lose the game simultaneously, thus would leave the game simultaneously because they have 0 or less life (C.R. 704.5a, 704.3, 104.5), and the game may or may not end depending on the circumstances (C.R. 104.1, 104.2a, 104.2c, 104.4a).
Note that nothing in the Attack Left or Attack Right option (under C.R. 803.1) changes how players win or lose a game or who a player's opponents are. Thus, by default, a player's opponents in either option are all the other players, not just the player seated to that player's left or right, as the case may be (review C.R. 803.1; see also C.R. 102), and a player wins the game "if that player's opponents have all left the game" (among other circumstances) (C.R. 104.2a), not necessarily if the player seated to their left or right has left the game (and as a result, players 3 and 7 don't necessarily win the game in this scenario because each of them still has opponents still in the game).
EDIT: Clarification after comment 3 was posted.
EDIT (Jun. 10): Edited, including to add rule citations.
EDIT (Sep. 14): Correctness edit.
We play attack left that way so we don't have a number of players sitting around doing nothing until the game finishes. Never realised that wasn't official rules!
Thanks for your answer on my question, clears it up.
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Go for the Throat resolves, Abyssal Persecutor is removed from game. Player2 receives priority as it is his turn. State Based Action checks his life total, is is 0 or less, so he loses the game.
Does it then:
1) Player2 leaves the game, triggering the win condition for Player1. Game ends.
2) Player2 leaves the game, then state based actions follow around the table, resulting in Player4 and Player1 also leaving the game. Players 1, 3 and 7 should then win, except 1 is dead, so just 3 and 7 win?
The main argument here is 104.3f If a player would both win and lose the game simultaneously, that player loses the game. But is this a simultaneous win/lose for Player1, or does the win resolve before the lose condition reaches him?
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Note that nothing in the Attack Left or Attack Right option (under C.R. 803.1) changes how players win or lose a game or who a player's opponents are. Thus, by default, a player's opponents in either option are all the other players, not just the player seated to that player's left or right, as the case may be (review C.R. 803.1; see also C.R. 102), and a player wins the game "if that player's opponents have all left the game" (among other circumstances) (C.R. 104.2a), not necessarily if the player seated to their left or right has left the game (and as a result, players 3 and 7 don't necessarily win the game in this scenario because each of them still has opponents still in the game).
EDIT: Clarification after comment 3 was posted.
EDIT (Jun. 10): Edited, including to add rule citations.
EDIT (Sep. 14): Correctness edit.
Thanks for your answer on my question, clears it up.