Bloated Contaminator
Bloated Contaminator: Creature - Phyrexian Beast, Phyrexia: All Will Be One. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Creature - Phyrexian Beast
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 4/4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)
- Released
- 2023-02-10
- Collector number
- 159
- Artist
- Johann Bodin
- Commander rank
- 2,584 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Toxic, Trample, Proliferate
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About Bloated Contaminator
Bloated Contaminator is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green creature from Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), an expansion set released in February 2023. It is collector number 159 in that set, with art by Johann Bodin. It costs {2}{G} (two generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 4/4 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $3.03 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Trample
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $3.03 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Bloated Contaminator by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Bloated Contaminator
Bloated Contaminator has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) #389 | Rare | 2023 |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos (PONE) #159p | Rare | 2023 |
| Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos (PONE) #159s | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Bloated Contaminator, newest first.
- You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- 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.
- 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.
- If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- 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.
- To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
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