Venomous Brutalizer

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Venomous Brutalizer: Creature - Phyrexian Knight, Phyrexia: All Will Be One. Toxic 3. When this creature enters, you may pay 1G. On Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Mana value
4
Type
Creature - Phyrexian Knight
Colour identity
Green (G)
Power / toughness
4/4
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)
Released
2023-02-10
Collector number
193
Artist
Mike Jordana
Commander rank
7,982 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Proliferate, Toxic

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About Venomous Brutalizer

Venomous Brutalizer is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon green creature from Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), an expansion set released in February 2023. It is collector number 193 in that set, with art by Mike Jordana. It costs {2}{G}{G} (two generic and two green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. 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 and Gladiator. Phyrexia: All Will Be One is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.23 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Toxic 3 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get three poison counters.)

When this creature enters, you may pay {1}{G}. If you do, 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: $0.23 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Venomous Brutalizer by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Venomous Brutalizer, newest first.

  • 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.
  • An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
  • Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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