Plague Engineer
Modern Horizons 100 • rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Collector number
- 100
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Nicholas Gregory
- Market price
- $0.37
What it does
Deathtouch
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type your opponents control get -1/-1.
"The lasting effects are invariably fatal."— Phyrexian progress notes
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 Engineer was released in 2019 as part of the Modern Horizons expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. This set was notable for being the first to skip the standard legal rotation for the Modern format, instead introducing new cards directly into that environment to facilitate higher-level competitive play. The card was designed to serve as a versatile utility creature, specifically engineered to punish decks that rely on flooding the battlefield with numerous tokens or small creatures.
The artwork was illustrated by Igor Kieryluk, who captured the character as a grim, clinical figure clad in a stylized plague mask. His design emphasizes the card's function as a bringer of attrition and disease, fitting the aesthetic of the black color identity within the game. Upon its release, the card was widely received as a staple for black-aligned control and midrange strategies, particularly in the Modern and Legacy formats, where its ability to pick a specific creature type to weaken remains a powerful tactical tool.
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