Malicious Malfunction
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Kamigawa: Neon DynastyNEO · #110
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.16 € · 0.17 $ · ★ 0.28 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Deruchenko Alexander
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-02-18
Flavour text
"That? A minor test, nothing more. Incompleat flesh is weak." —Jin-Gitaxias
Rulings
Creatures that would die for any reason this turn are exiled instead, not just creatures that would die after getting -2/-2.
While the -2/-2 applies only to creatures that are on the battlefield as Malicious Malfunction resolves, the replacement effect applies to all creatures that turn, including ones that enter the battlefield after Malicious Malfunction resolves or noncreatures that become creatures after Malicious Malfunction resolves.