Basilica Shepherd
Creature β Phyrexian Angel
Basilica Shepherd
Creature β Phyrexian Angel
Card Text
Flying
When this creature enters, create two 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." (Players dealt combat damage by them also get a poison counter.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 5
- Colors
- White
- Color Identity
- White
- Power / Toughness
- 3 / 3
- EDHREC Rank
- #10,093
Format Legalities
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (8)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | en | Allen Williams | $0.11 | $0.23 |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | de | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | es | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | fr | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | it | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | ja | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | pt | Allen Williams | β | β |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) | #4 | common | zhs | Allen Williams | β | β |
Official Rulings (7)
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.
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.
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.
Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
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.
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.
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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