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Pox Plague
Oracle Text
Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice. Round down each time.
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Mana CostCharacter Background
Pox Plague is a brutally symmetrical sorcery that reads like a signature control finisher for a black-heavy attrition deck, especially one built to recover faster than the opponent. At five black mana, it demands commitment, but the payoff is devastating: each player loses half their life, then half their hand, then half their board, rounding down each time. In practice, that means the card shines when you’ve already squeezed resources out of the game and are ahead on permanents, or when your deck is designed to break parity with recursive threats, tokens, and cheap card draw. Pair it with resilient permanents like planeswalkers, sacrifice fodder, or graveyard engines so you can keep pressure while the table collapses around you. In lore terms, it feels like a cruel, methodical curse from Strixhaven’s darker corners—less a fireball than a slow, academic extermination of resources.
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Character Background
Pox Plague is a brutally symmetrical sorcery that reads like a signature control finisher for a black-heavy attrition deck, especially one built to recover faster than the opponent. At five black mana, it demands commitment, but the payoff is devastating: each player loses half their life, then half their hand, then half their board, rounding down each time. In practice, that means the card shines when you’ve already squeezed resources out of the game and are ahead on permanents, or when your deck is designed to break parity with recursive threats, tokens, and cheap card draw. Pair it with resilient permanents like planeswalkers, sacrifice fodder, or graveyard engines so you can keep pressure while the table collapses around you. In lore terms, it feels like a cruel, methodical curse from Strixhaven’s darker corners—less a fireball than a slow, academic extermination of resources.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-03 12:40:43 UTC