Magic: The Gathering

Spread the Sickness

Modern Masters 2015 98 • uncommon

Set: Modern Masters 2015
Collector number: 98
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana cost: 4 generic mana black mana
Type: Sorcery
Colors: Black
Artist: Jaime Jones
Market price: $0.19

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$0.19market price via TCGplayer · Aug 20, 2026$0.12 – $0.19 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card functions as a strategic removal tool, allowing players to eliminate a target creature while simultaneously advancing their own board state through the proliferation of counters. As an uncommon card, it serves as a reliable utility piece that rewards careful timing and synergy in decks built around incremental advantage.

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Card face

What it does

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Spread the Sickness was originally printed in the Scars of Mirrodin set in 2010, designed as a thematic representation of the Phyrexian invasion of the plane of Mirrodin. The card's mechanics, which allow a player to destroy a creature and then proliferate, were intended to showcase the parasitic, spreading nature of the Phyrexian oil that sought to corrupt the plane’s inhabitants.

The version from Modern Masters 2015, featuring art by Volkan Baga, serves as a reprint intended to support the set's limited environment, which focused on the intersection of various mechanics like infect and proliferate. Baga’s illustration leans into the dark, industrial aesthetic characteristic of the New Phyrexian faction, emphasizing the grotesque transformation of organic matter that defined the set's narrative arc.

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Other printings

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Spread the SicknessMirrodin Besieged · #56 · common · 2011$0.25

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