What is the end result of an unblocked Master of Cruelties on the opposing teams life total?
I am aware that when declaring and attack in 2HG you are attacking/damaging a particular player, so I know that that player's
life total is reduced to 1, but how does that apply to the shared life total? Does the team's life get reduced to 1, or since it's
shared the reduction takes it to 16?
Effects that set a player's life total to 1 in Two-Headed Giant are governed by C.R. 810.9c; that player "gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total. The team's life total is adjusted" accordingly (see also C.R. 810.9). For example, if the team's life total is 10 and an effect sets the life total of one of its players to 1, that player loses 9 life (because 10 minus 1 is 9) and the team's life total is adjusted to become 1. As a result, for example, if both players in that team each control Lich's Tomb, only the ability of the Lich's Tomb controlled by the player who lost life this way will trigger.
I am aware that when declaring and attack in 2HG you are attacking/damaging a particular player, so I know that that player's
life total is reduced to 1, but how does that apply to the shared life total? Does the team's life get reduced to 1, or since it's
shared the reduction takes it to 16?