Pith Driller
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
New PhyrexiaNPH · #69
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.10 € · ★ 0.26 € · 0.14 $ · ★ 0.25 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
( can be paid with either or 2 life.) When this creature enters, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nils Hamm
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-05-13
Flavour text
After boring up through the crust of Mirrodin, it turned its expertise upon the surface dwellers.
Rulings
A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
Pith Driller's ability is mandatory. If it's the only creature on the battlefield when it enters, Pith Driller's ability will target itself.
To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.