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Virulent Silencer

Magic: The GatheringEdge of Eternities#248

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Magic: The Gathering

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Edge of EternitiesEOE · #248

Card type: Artifact Creature — Robot Assassin
Rarity: Uncommon
Indicative price: 0.13 € · ★ 0.23 € · 0.29 $ · ★ 0.36 $
Mana value: 3
Power: 2
Toughness: 3
Colour: Colourless

Card text

Whenever a nontoken artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Format legality

AlchemyLegal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
FutureLegal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PioneerLegal
StandardLegal
StandardbrawlLegal
TimelessLegal
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: Kenn Yap
Card language: English
Release date: 2025-08-01

Flavour text

Nano-infectant: A category-Phi substance, capable of infecting both organics and artificials. Weaponizing it is a war crime.

Rulings

2025-07-25

A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn’t use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can’t respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.