Karumonix, the Rat King
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Rat
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One #282 (rare)
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Karumonix, the Rat King has 6 printings, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #3,561 among Commander cards. It appears most in Marrow-Gnawer decks (11,119 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Karumonix, the Rat King most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Marrow-Gnawer: 11,119 decks
- Wick, the Whorled Mind: 8,613 decks
- Vren, the Relentless: 7,156 decks
- Rat King, Verminister: 3,892 decks
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm: 2,712 decks
- Totentanz, Swarm Piper: 1,182 decks
- Doran, Besieged by Time: 727 decks
- Nashi, Moon's Legacy: 604 decks
Often played with Karumonix, the Rat King
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
- : Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
- : Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
- : A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
- : If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
- : Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
- : Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.