Plague Nurse

Magic: The GatheringPhyrexia: All Will Be One#179
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Card type
Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
Rarity
Common
Indicative price
0.07 € · ★ 0.18 € · 0.20 $ · ★ 0.25 $
Mana value
4
Power
3
Toughness
4
Colour
Green

Card text

Toxic 2 : Each other creature you control with toxic gains toxic 1 until end of turn. Activate only once each turn. (A player dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic also gets poison counters equal to that creature's total toxic value.)

Format legality

  • BrawlLegal
  • CommanderLegal
  • CompetitivebrawlLegal
  • DuelLegal
  • GladiatorLegal
  • HistoricLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • PauperLegal
  • PaupercommanderLegal
  • PioneerLegal
  • TimelessLegal
  • VintageLegal

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Printing information

Illustrator
Marcela Bolívar
Card language
English
Release date
2023-02-10

Rulings

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.

Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.

Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.

Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.

If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.

Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.

Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.

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