Viral Drake
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Phyrexian Drake
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 4
- Set
- New Phyrexia #49 (uncommon)
- Price
- $1.88 USD
Flying
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
{3}{U}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Viral Drake has 2 printings, first in New Phyrexia (2011). EDHREC ranks it #7,206 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (5,285 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Viral Drake most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 5,285 decks
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus: 1,297 decks
- Toxrill, the Corrosive: 862 decks
- Venser, Corpse Puppet: 831 decks
- Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive: 801 decks
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres: 555 decks
- Lulu, Stern Guardian: 489 decks
- Volrath, the Shapestealer: 487 decks
Often played with Viral Drake
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- : 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.