Phyrexian Totem
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the CoalitionDDE · #20
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.15 € · 0.21 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Add . : This artifact becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn. Whenever this permanent is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- John Zeleznik
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-03-19
Rulings
When damage is dealt to Phyrexian Totem, its triggered ability will trigger. A number of permanents equal to the amount of damage dealt will be sacrificed when the ability resolves. It doesn't matter if Phyrexian Totem isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, as long as Phyrexian Totem was a creature as it left the battlefield. If one of the permanents sacrificed is Phyrexian Totem itself, the requisite number of other permanents must still be sacrificed.
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
