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Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
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Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

{2}{B}{B}

Legendary Creature — Human Cleric

Legal Salt 1.15Card DrawRank #814

Protection from Humans

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.

{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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KeywordsProtectionProliferate

Why is this card good?

Yawgmoth is one of the best aristocrats engines in the format, period. The first ability is the heart of it: turn any creature into a card and a -1/-1 counter for just 1 life. That's a repeatable sac outlet AND card advantage stapled together, which is exactly what aristocrats decks crave — Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance turn every sacrifice into a drain. The counter half is brutal removal and synergy: clear out X/1 and X/2 boards, kill mana dorks, or fuel undying/persist creatures (sacrifice, drop a counter, return them) for infinite loops. With Pitiless Plunderer or a free sac payoff, he enables genuine combo kills. Wants him: mono-black or Golgari aristocrats, persist/undying combo shells, and any commander like Meren, Korvold, or Teval that loves recurring creatures. Skip him in decks without sacrifice fodder or token generation — feeding him costs creatures, so he's dead weight in voltron, spellslinger, or go-wide-without-bodies strategies.

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Sheoldred, the ApocalypseB

Black commander/creature that punishes draw and provides life-drain card advantage.

Pawn of UlamogB

Generates Eldrazi Spawn fodder when creatures die, feeding Yawgmoth's sacrifice.

Blood ArtistB

Drains opponents each time a creature dies to Yawgmoth's sacrifice ability.

Zulaport CutthroatB

Aristocrat payoff converting Yawgmoth sacrifices into life loss.

Pitiless PlundererB

Creates Treasure on each creature death, fueling repeated sacrifices.

Grim HaruspexB

Draws a card per nontoken creature death, doubling Yawgmoth's card flow.

Midnight ReaperB

Card draw engine for nontoken creature deaths in black sacrifice decks.

Bolas's CitadelB

Leverages life payment and draw to dump cards, pairs with sacrifice synergies.

Printings (6)

fcaFinal Fantasy: Through the Ages · #11M$29.60Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #431M$29.84Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #315M$28.89Buy
dmrDominaria Remastered · #110M$38.42Buy
tsrTime Spiral Remastered · #336S$35.73Buy
mh1Modern Horizons · #116M$37.17Buy

Rulings (12)

  • 2023-02-04

    If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.

  • 2023-02-04

    To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.

  • 2023-02-04

    You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

  • 2023-02-04

    If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.

  • 2023-02-04

    An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.

  • 2023-02-04

    Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.

  • 2022-12-08

    If a permanent has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action until that permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.

  • 2022-12-08

    To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.

  • 2022-12-08

    You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.

  • 2022-12-08

    Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.

  • 2021-03-19

    Protection from Humans refers only to the creature type Human. As far as Yawgmoth is concerned, you, your opponents, and planeswalkers aren't Humans.

  • 2021-03-19

    You may activate Yawgmoth's first activated ability without choosing a target creature. You'll just draw a card. However, if you choose a target and it becomes illegal before the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve and you won't draw a card.

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