Plague of Vermin
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SetPZA
Collector #7
Released2026-03-06
Raritymythic
ArtistPeter Laird & Jim Lawson
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesBorderless · Full art · Reprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Plague of Vermin

MythicColour IDMV 7
Sorcery
Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.
Card capabilities
Sorcery
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
1 other English printingEarliest 2008-05-02Newest 2008-05-02Cheapest priced $20.54 in SHM
Rulings (5)
wotc1 May 2008
In a game of N players, the process ends when all N players in sequence (starting with you) choose not to pay life. It doesn't end the first time a player chooses not to pay life. If a player chooses not to pay life but the process continues, that player may pay life the next time the process gets around to them.
wotc1 May 2008
In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player on a team gets a chance to pay life. The team's life total is adjusted in between.
wotc1 May 2008
After the process stops, the total amount of life each player paid this way is calculated. That's how many tokens each player gets. All the tokens enter at the same time.
wotc1 May 2008
If a player chooses to spend life, their life total goes down immediately. This will affect how much life that player can spend the next time the process gets around to them. If a player chooses to pay life three different times during this process, for example, that counts as three separate instances of losing life, not as one.
wotc1 May 2008
The amount of life a player may spend must be equal to or less than that player's life total; you can't spend life you haven't got.