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Blighted Agent

Creature — Phyrexian Human Rogue1 generic manaBlue mana

The math is what makes this one of the cleanest poison clocks ever stapled to two mana. Infect deals damage to players as poison counters, and a player loses at ten poison rather than twenty life, so a single point of damage is worth double against the alternate win condition. Unblockable folds the second variable out of the equation entirely: there is no chump-blocking, no trading, no racing math on the defender's side. A 1/1 that cannot be stopped is a deterministic two-turn-per-pump countdown, and the only question left is how many counters you can pile on before the ten arrives. That combination (evasion plus the doubled value of poison) is why this slots into combo-flavored aggro rather than fair board states; it is built to carry a stack of pump spells to lethal in a window the opponent has almost no interaction with on the combat side. The body is irrelevant. The keyword pairing is the entire pitch: take the most efficient evasion stamp in the game and attach it to the only damage type that wins from ten, and you have a creature whose job is to be the unanswerable delivery vector for a stack of buffs. Removal answers it, but blocking never will, and that asymmetry has anchored Phyrexian poison strategies wherever they have been viable.

Blighted Agent (plst)
PLST · #NPH-29common
Pricing
Normal:
Foil: $2.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) This creature can't be blocked.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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