Gnawing Vermin
The Brothers' War 101 • uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Collector number
- 101
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Raoul Vitale
- Market price
- $0.22
What it does
When this creature enters, target player mills two cards.
When this creature dies, target creature you don't control gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
"Everyone warns about the sand and the food, but the rats are worse than both put together!"— Sanwell, letter to his family
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Gnawing Vermin was released in late 2022 as part of The Brothers' War, a Magic: The Gathering expansion that revisited the central conflict between the artificer brothers Urza and Mishra. The set was designed to evoke a retro-futuristic aesthetic, blending high-fantasy machinery with the gritty, war-torn landscape of Dominaria's past. This card functions as a common creature, designed to represent the pervasive, scavenging nature of the war's fallout.
The card features artwork by Wisnu Tan, who captured the creature's menacing, scavenger-like anatomy to reflect its role as a parasitic nuisance in the game's mechanics. Within the set's draft environment, the card was intended to support black-aligned strategies focused on sacrifice and graveyard utility. It is widely regarded by players as a functional, atmospheric piece of world-building that reinforces the set's thematic preoccupation with destruction and resource attrition.
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About Gnawing Vermin
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