With the help of a Vasuki ( mighty and long serpent, king of Nagloka) the churning process began at the surface. This mountain was used as a churning pole.

Vishnu agreed to take the form of a turtle on whose shell a huge mountain was placed. They suggested that Amrita could only be gained from the Samudra Manthan ( or churning of the ocean) for the ocean in its depths hid mysterious and secret objects. So these gods ( including Indra, the god of sky, Vayu, the god of wind, and Agni, the god of fire) went to seek advice and help from the three primary gods according to the Hindus: Vishnu ( the preserver), Brahma ( the creator), and Shiva ( the destroyer). This was seen as a threat to the gods ( Devas) who feared them. Legend has it that at early times when the inception of the world had just taken place, evil demons ( Ashur) had gained strength. Anybody who consumes even the tiniest portion of Amrita has been described to gain immortality. The elixir of life in IndiaĪmrita, the elixir of life has been described in the Hindu scriptures ( not to be confused with Amrit related to Sikh religion). The Jiajing Emperor in the Ming Dynasty died from ingesting a lethal dosage of mercury in the supposed Elixir of Life conjured by alchemists. Many of these substances, far from contributing to longevity, were actively toxic and resulted in Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning. The most famous Chinese alchemical book, the Danjing yaojue ( Essential Formulas of Alchemical Classics) attributed to Sun Simiao, a famous medical specialist respectfully called “ King of Medicine” by later generations, discusses in detail the creation of elixirs for immortality ( mercury, sulfur, and the salts of mercury and arsenic are prominent, and most are poisonous) as well as those for curing certain diseases and the fabrication of precious stones. Gold was considered particularly potent, as it was a non-tarnishing precious metal the idea of potable or drinkable gold is found in China by the end of the third century BC. The ancient Chinese believed that ingesting long-lasting precious substances such as jade, cinnabar or hematite would confer some of that longevity on the person who consumed them. When Shi Huang Di visited, he brought 3000 young girls and boys, but none of them ever returned. In the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang sent Taoist alchemist Xu Fu with 500 young men and 500 young women to the eastern seas to find the elixir, but he never came back ( legend has it that he found Japan instead).

You are considered to have shuffled each affected library (even if, as a shortcut, each player physically shuffles their own library).In ancient China, many emperors sought the fabled elixir with varying results. If you gain control of another player’s Elixir of Immortality and activate it, the Elixir of Immortality will be shuffled into its owner’s library and the cards in your graveyard will be shuffled into your library. If it’s anywhere else by that time, including in another player’s graveyard, it remains where it is and you shuffle just your graveyard into your library. If Elixir of Immortality is in your graveyard at the time the ability resolves, you’ll still wind up shuffling it into your library because you shuffle your entire graveyard into your library. If you have a way to untap it, you can activate the ability multiple times in response to itself.Īs the ability resolves, you’ll shuffle Elixir of Immortality into its owner’s library directly from the battlefield, if it’s still there.

Paying the activation cost of Elixir of Immortality’s ability doesn’t cause it to leave the battlefield.

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