Plague Boiler
Ravnica: City of Guilds 269 • rare
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Collector number
- 269
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.24
What it does
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a plague counter on this artifact.
1 generic mana black mana green mana: Put a plague counter on this artifact or remove a plague counter from it.
When this artifact has three or more plague counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, destroy all nonland permanents.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Plague Boiler was released in 2005 as part of the Ravnica: City of Guilds set, the inaugural entry in the Ravnica block for Magic: The Gathering. Designed as an artifact representing the grim utilitarianism of the Golgari Swarm, the card embodies the guild's core theme of decay and cyclical rebirth through its board-wiping ability. The card emerged during a period when Wizards of the Coast was emphasizing multi-colored mechanical synergy, and its design reflects the Golgari focus on managing the graveyard as a resource.
The card's evocative imagery was created by veteran artist Mark Tedin, whose work is synonymous with the early, surreal aesthetic of the game. Tedin’s illustration depicts the grotesque, alchemical machinery used by the Golgari to facilitate rot, capturing the claustrophobic and subterranean atmosphere of the city-world of Ravnica. Upon its release, the card was received as a flavorful, if slow, utility piece for control decks, praised more for its thematic alignment with its guild than for competitive dominance.
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