Plague Rats
30th Anniversary Edition 415 • common
- Set
- 30th Anniversary Edition
- Collector number
- 415
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Anson Maddocks
- Market price
- €45.00
What it does
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
"Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..."— Samuel Coleridge, "Recantation"
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Plague Rats was originally released in the 1993 Alpha set of Magic: The Gathering, serving as one of the game's earliest mechanical experiments in swarm-based gameplay. Designed by Richard Garfield, the card allowed players to ignore the standard rule limiting deck composition to four copies of a single card, provided they were using Plague Rats. This design choice was intended to create a unique deck-building strategy where the player could overwhelm opponents with an ever-growing army of identical vermin.
The 30th Anniversary Edition, released in 2022, serves as a non-tournament-legal commemorative celebration of the game's history. It features the original artwork by Anson Maddocks, whose moody and gritty illustrative style defined the aesthetic of early Magic. While this version of the card is a faithful reproduction of the original in terms of layout and art, it was produced as a collector's item to honor the foundational sets that launched the trading card game industry three decades prior.
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