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Omeed, Sand Snake
LGS_023, Clever World Traveler
Evil, Major Hero, Seeker
Attack 2, Defense 4
Reclaim — Whenever a Sand Snake is KO'd in my zone from combat attacks, draw a card. (When I'm KO'd, draw a card.)

I'd just like to know if the section of his ability that is in brackets is clarifying that you draw a card when Omeed is KO’d by combat or if it means that you get to draw a card if Omeed is KO’d by any means (like Darkvoid or Retaliation).

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Omeed, Sand Snake
LGS_023, Clever World Traveler
Evil, Major Hero, Seeker
Attack 2, Defense 4
Reclaim — Whenever a Sand Snake is KO'd in my zone from combat attacks, draw a card. (When I'm KO'd, draw a card.)

I'd just like to know if the section of his ability that is in brackets is clarifying that you draw a card when Omeed is KO’d by combat or if it means that you get to draw a card if Omeed is KO’d by any means (like Darkvoid or Retaliation).

The key words in Reclaim are "combat attacks", If a combat action is played that KO's him he is not KO'd by combat attacks, there for you do not get to draw a card, also if you had any other sand snakes in the zone that get KO'd from combat attacks you do not get to draw a card if he was KO'd before attacks are aimed. Hope this clears things up

i think the original question was aimed specifically at "(When I'm KO'd, draw a card.)", as that part does not specifiy combat attacks

The bit in the brackets is there to let players know he triggers off his own ability.

This is not a seperate ability otherwise it would even work outside of combat by actions such as darkwave

This is what i thought was correct.

Someone commented on this when it was mentioned and they said if they were seperate effects you could draw 2 cards if Omeed was KO'd by combat and that would be too good.

Just as a side note, this is covered in the Comprehensive Rules, Section 203.1:

A card’s text box is below its type line. A card’s text may include game text (not italicized), reminder text, and/or flavor text. Reminder text is italicized text in parentheses that clarifies game text.

This implies that reminder text has no impact on game play and thus is not an effect on its own, but rather clarifies how the effect works.

This also means that you will not draw a card if you steal Omeed's effect with Switchsoul as your hero is most probably not a Sand Snake.