Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs. the Coalition
Phyrexian Negator
Trample
Whenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents.
They exist to cease.
Carrion Feeder
Carrion Feeder can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.
Stinking of rot, it leaps between gravestones in search of its next meal.
Phyrexian Battleflies
Flying
{B}: Phyrexian Battleflies gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate no more than twice each turn.
After encountering them, Squee finally lost his appetite for bugs.
Phyrexian Denouncer
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Denouncer: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"The first stage of the illness: rash and nausea."
—Phyrexian progress notes
Bone Shredder
Flying
Echo {2}{B} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Bone Shredder enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Phyrexian Ghoul
Sacrifice a creature: Phyrexian Ghoul gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Phyrexia wastes nothing. Its food chain is a spiraling cycle.
Priest of Gix
When Priest of Gix enters the battlefield, add {B}{B}{B}.
"Gix doesn't want a people to rule but puppets to entertain his madness."
—Xantcha, Phyrexian outcast
Phyrexian Broodlings
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Phyrexian Broodlings.
With limited resources and near unlimited time, Kerrick used parts from one beast to build another.
Sanguine Guard
First strike
{1}{B}: Regenerate Sanguine Guard.
"Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*
Phyrexian Debaser
Flying
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Debaser: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
"The second stage of the illness: high fever and severe infectiousness."
—Phyrexian progress notes
Order of Yawgmoth
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Whenever Order of Yawgmoth deals damage to a player, that player discards a card.
Phyrexian Defiler
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Defiler: Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
"The third stage of the illness: muscle aches and persistent cough."
—Phyrexian progress notes
Phyrexian Plaguelord
{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Plaguelord: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death."
—Phyrexian progress notes
Phyrexian Hulk
It doesn't think. It doesn't feel.
It doesn't laugh or cry.
All it does from dusk till dawn
Is make the soldiers die.
—Onean children's rhyme
Phyrexian Gargantua
When Phyrexian Gargantua enters the battlefield, you draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
Other Phyrexians have nightmares about the gargantua.
Phyrexian Colossus
Phyrexian Colossus doesn't untap during your untap step.
Pay 8 life: Untap Phyrexian Colossus.
Phyrexian Colossus can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Voltaic Key
{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.
The key did not work on a single lock, yet it opened many doors.
Dark Ritual
Add {B}{B}{B}.
"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*
Lightning Greaves
Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}
After lightning struck the cliffs, the ore became iron, the iron became steel, and the steel became greaves. The lightning never left.
Phyrexian Totem
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}{B}: Phyrexian Totem becomes a 5/5 black Phyrexian Horror artifact creature with trample until end of turn.
Whenever Phyrexian Totem is dealt damage, if it's a creature, sacrifice that many permanents.
Phyrexian Vault
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
"The secrets of Phyrexia are expensive. You will pay in brass and bone, steel and sinew."
—Kaervek
Puppet Strings
{2}, {T}: You may tap or untap target creature.
"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."
Whispersilk Cloak
Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {2}
Such cloaks are in high demand both by assassins and by those who fear them.
Worn Powerstone
Worn Powerstone enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.
Even a fragment of a powerstone contains within it not just energy, but space—vast dimensions trapped in fragile crystal.
Slay
Destroy target green creature. It can't be regenerated.
Draw a card.
The elves had the edge in guile, skill, and valor. But in the end, only sheer numbers mattered.
Hideous End
Destroy target nonblack creature. Its controller loses 2 life.
Death is a generous author, always willing to grant a stirring final chapter.
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
An audience of one with the malice of thousands.
Hornet Cannon
{3}, {T}: Create a 1/1 colorless Insect artifact creature token with flying and haste named Hornet. Destroy it at the beginning of the next end step.
Phyrexian Processor
As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.
Tendrils of Corruption
Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
Darkness doesn't always send its minions to do its dirty work.
Living Death
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Urza's Rage
Kicker {8}{R} (You may pay an additional {8}{R} as you cast this spell.)
This spell can't be countered.
Urza's Rage deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, instead it deals 10 damage to that permanent or player and the damage can't be prevented.
Thornscape Apprentice
{R}, {T}: Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
{W}, {T}: Tap target creature.
Nomadic Elf
{1}{G}: Add one mana of any color.
"I've journeyed across Dominaria. Phyrexians are everywhere. Plague is everywhere. There's no place left to hide."
Quirion Elves
As Quirion Elves enters the battlefield, choose a color.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.
Sunscape Battlemage
Kicker {1}{G} and/or {2}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{G} and/or {2}{U} as you cast this spell.)
When Sunscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {1}{G} kicker, destroy target creature with flying.
When Sunscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {2}{U} kicker, draw two cards.
Thunderscape Battlemage
Kicker {1}{B} and/or {G} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} and/or {G} as you cast this spell.)
When Thunderscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, target player discards two cards.
When Thunderscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {G} kicker, destroy target enchantment.
Thornscape Battlemage
Kicker {R} and/or {W} (You may pay an additional {R} and/or {W} as you cast this spell.)
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {R} kicker, it deals 2 damage to any target.
When Thornscape Battlemage enters the battlefield, if it was kicked with its {W} kicker, destroy target artifact.
Verduran Emissary
Kicker {1}{R} (You may pay an additional {1}{R} as you cast this spell.)
When Verduran Emissary enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated.
Yavimaya Elder
When Yavimaya Elder dies, you may search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
{2}, Sacrifice Yavimaya Elder: Draw a card.
Charging Troll
Vigilance
{G}: Regenerate Charging Troll.
They stop for nothing, not even the end of a battle.
Gerrard Capashen
At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain 1 life for each card in target opponent's hand.
{3}{W}: Tap target creature. Activate only if Gerrard Capashen is attacking.
Darigaaz, the Igniter
Flying
Whenever Darigaaz, the Igniter deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{R}. If you do, choose a color, then that player reveals their hand and Darigaaz deals damage to the player equal to the number of cards of that color revealed this way.
Rith, the Awakener
Flying
Whenever Rith, the Awakener deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, choose a color, then create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token for each permanent of that color.
