Viral Spawning
- Mana cost
- {2}{G}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #194 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.29 USD
Create a 3/3 green Phyrexian Beast creature token with toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by it also get a poison counter.)
Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters and this card is in your graveyard, it has flashback {2}{G}. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Viral Spawning has 1 printing, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #16,843 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa decks (549 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Viral Spawning most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa: 549 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive: 434 decks
- Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres: 124 decks
- Glissa, Herald of Predation: 102 decks
- Migloz, Maze Crusher: 73 decks
- Melira, the Living Cure: 29 decks
- Graham O'Brien: 2 decks
- Doorman: 1 decks
Often played with Viral Spawning
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- : If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- : You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- : "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."