Phyrexian Debaser
Urza's Legacy 59 • common
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Collector number
- 59
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.18
What it does
Flying
tap, Sacrifice this creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
"The second stage of the illness: high fever and severe infectiousness."— Phyrexian progress notes
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
The Phyrexian Debaser was released in 1999 as part of the Urza's Legacy expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a core component of the Urza block, the set was designed to explore the high-fantasy industrial conflict between the artificer Urza and the mechanical horrors of Phyrexia. Mechanically, the card was intended to provide a common-rarity creature that utilized the block's emphasis on graveyard interactions and aggressive black-mana strategies.
The card’s illustration was provided by artist Eric Peterson, whose work during this era often leaned into the grotesque and biological aesthetic synonymous with the Phyrexian faction. By depicting a twisted, nightmarish entity, Peterson contributed to the visual identity of a race that sought to meld organic life with cold machinery. The design was received as a standard utility creature of its time, fitting into the dark, lore-heavy narrative that defined the late 1990s Magic aesthetic.
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