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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.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Pox Plague is a brutal, asymmetrical-looking reset spell that most naturally belongs in black control or attrition-heavy combo shells, especially decks built to break the symmetry through recursive threats, token fodder, or life-payment payoffs. Five black mana is steep, but the effect is devastating: each player loses half their life, then half their hand, then half their board, with rounding down, so the card punishes any opponent who has tried to stabilize on resources rather than raw speed. The best use is to cast it when you are ahead on permanents or when your deck can immediately recover with graveyard value, planeswalkers, or repeatable sacrifice pieces like Bloodghast-style threats and cheap token engines. The “plague” feel is all about indiscriminate decay, and in play it rewards patient pilots who can turn a near-apocalypse into a one-sided lock. Pair it with discard recursion or permanent-based card advantage to rebuild faster than the table.
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Character Background
Pox Plague is a brutal, asymmetrical-looking reset spell that most naturally belongs in black control or attrition-heavy combo shells, especially decks built to break the symmetry through recursive threats, token fodder, or life-payment payoffs. Five black mana is steep, but the effect is devastating: each player loses half their life, then half their hand, then half their board, with rounding down, so the card punishes any opponent who has tried to stabilize on resources rather than raw speed. The best use is to cast it when you are ahead on permanents or when your deck can immediately recover with graveyard value, planeswalkers, or repeatable sacrifice pieces like Bloodghast-style threats and cheap token engines. The “plague” feel is all about indiscriminate decay, and in play it rewards patient pilots who can turn a near-apocalypse into a one-sided lock. Pair it with discard recursion or permanent-based card advantage to rebuild faster than the table.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-03 12:10:43 UTC