Pestilent Syphoner
Pestilent Syphoner: Creature - Phyrexian Insect, Phyrexia: All Will Be One. Flying. Toxic 1. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Creature - Phyrexian Insect
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)
- Released
- 2023-02-10
- Collector number
- 103
- Artist
- Brian Valeza
- Commander rank
- 6,418 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Flying, Toxic
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About Pestilent Syphoner
Pestilent Syphoner is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black creature from Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), an expansion set released in February 2023. It is collector number 103 in that set, with art by Brian Valeza. It costs {1}{B} (one generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Phyrexia: All Will Be One is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.22 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Flying
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
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Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.22 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Pestilent Syphoner by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Pestilent Syphoner, newest first.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
Similar cards
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In these precons
Pestilent Syphoner is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.