Festering Newt is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
When this creature dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch.
How it works : Festering Newt
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Whether you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch is checked only as the triggered ability resolves. How the target creature is affected won’t change if you gain or lose control of all your Bogbrew Witches later in the turn.
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Bogbrew Witch + Festering Newt + Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Bogbrew Witch by paying
and tapping it, searching your library for Festering Newt and putting it onto the battlefield. - 2Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Festering Newt, adding
. - 3When Festering Newt dies, it, Bogbrew Witch and Mortuary trigger.
- 4Resolve the Festering Newt trigger, giving any creature an opponent controls -4/-4 until end of turn.
- 5Resolve the Mortuary trigger, putting Festering Newt on top of your library from your graveyard.
- 6Resolve the Bogbrew Witch trigger, untapping it.
- 7Repeat.
Bogbrew Witch + Festering Newt + Wheel of Sun and Moon + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Bogbrew Witch by paying and tapping it, searching your library for Festering Newt and putting it onto the battlefield.
- 2When Festering Newt enters the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers, untapping all creatures.
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Festering Newt, adding .
- 4Festering Newt is put on the bottom of your library instead of your graveyard due to Wheel of Sun and Moon.
- 5Repeat.
Bogbrew Witch + Festering Newt + Mortuary + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Activate Bogbrew Witch by paying and tapping it, searching your library for Festering Newt and putting it onto the battlefield.
- 2When Festering Newt enters the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers, untapping all creatures.
- 3Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Festering Newt, adding .
- 4When Festering Newt dies, it and Mortuary trigger.
- 5Resolve the Festering Newt trigger, giving any creature an opponent controls -4/-4 until end of turn.
- 6Resolve the Mortuary trigger, putting Festering Newt on top of your library from your graveyard.
- 7Repeat.
Interactions with other cards
These cards' text mentions Festering Newt.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
{2}, {T}: Search your library for a card named Festering Newt or Bubbling Cauldron, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
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