Plague Nurse
Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
Plague Nurse
Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
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.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 4
- Colors
- Green
- Color Identity
- Green
- Power / Toughness
- 3 / 4
- EDHREC Rank
- #13,467
Format Legalities
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (8)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | en | Marcela Bolívar | $0.18 | $0.10 |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | de | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | es | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | fr | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | it | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | ja | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | pt | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #179 | common | zhs | Marcela Bolívar | — | — |
Official Rulings (7)
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.
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.
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.
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