Plague of Vermin 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
Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.
How it works : Plague of Vermin
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
In a game of N players, the process ends when all N players in sequence (starting with you) choose not to pay life. It doesn't end the first time a player chooses not to pay life. If a player chooses not to pay life but the process continues, that player may pay life the next time the process gets around to them.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The amount of life a player may spend must be equal to or less than that player's life total; you can't spend life you haven't got.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If a player chooses to spend life, their life total goes down immediately. This will affect how much life that player can spend the next time the process gets around to them. If a player chooses to pay life three different times during this process, for example, that counts as three separate instances of losing life, not as one.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
After the process stops, the total amount of life each player paid this way is calculated. That's how many tokens each player gets. All the tokens enter at the same time.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player on a team gets a chance to pay life. The team's life total is adjusted in between.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Ayara, First of Locthwain + Plague of Vermin
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying
. - 2Resolve Plague of Vermin, choosing to pay all but one life and create that many black Rat tokens.
- 3For each Rat tokens that enters the battlefield, Ayara triggers, causing you to gain that many life and each opponent to lose that many life.
Mirkwood Bats + Plague of Vermin
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying , causing you to pay life equal to the highest life total your opponents have and create that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Mirkwood Bats triggers for each token created this way, causing each opponent to lose that much life.
- 3Each opponent loses the game due to having zero or less life.
Plague of Vermin + Corpse Knight
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin, paying at least as much life as the opponent with the highest life total has.
- 2Resolve Plague Vermin, creating an amount of Rats equal to the amount of life you paid.
- 3Corpse Knight triggers for each Rat, causing each opponent to lose 1 life for each Rat.
Plague of Vermin + Ashnod's Altar + Nadier's Nightblade
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying and choosing to pay any amount of life, creating that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing a Rat.
- 3When the Rat dies, Nadier's Nightblade triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 4Repeat from step 2 as able.
Plague of Vermin + Viscera Seer + Nadier's Nightblade
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying and choosing to pay any amount of life, creating that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing a Rat.
- 3When the Rat dies, Nadier's Nightblade triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 4Resolve the Viscera Seer ability.
- 5Repeat from step 2 as able.
Plague of Vermin + Phyrexian Altar + Nadier's Nightblade
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying and choosing to pay any amount of life, creating that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing a Rat.
- 3When the Rat dies, Nadier's Nightblade triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 4Repeat from step 2 as able.
Ingris Stingerquill + Plague of Vermin
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying . Choose to pay an amount of life and create that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Activate Ingris by paying
, creating a 2/2 Cadet creature token and giving creatures you control haste until end of turn. - 3Declare all eligible creatures you control as attackers.
- 4Ingris triggers for each attacking creature, dealing that much damage to each opponent.
Plague of Vermin + Carrion Feeder + Nadier's Nightblade
- 1Cast Plague of Vermin by paying and choosing to pay any amount of life, creating that many 1/1 Rat creature tokens.
- 2Activate Carrion Feeder by sacrificing a Rat.
- 3When the Rat dies, Nadier's Nightblade triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life and you to gain 1 life.
- 4Resolve the Carrion Feeder ability.
- 5Repeat from step 2 as able.
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