Skrelv, Defector Mite
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Type
- Legendary Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Mite
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop #1926 (rare)
- Price
- $4.89 USD
Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Skrelv can't block.
{W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)
Skrelv, Defector Mite has 6 printings, first in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023). EDHREC ranks it #1,127 among Commander cards. It appears most in Atraxa, Praetors' Voice decks (13,867 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 Skrelv, Defector Mite most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Atraxa, Praetors' Voice: 13,867 decks
- Jodah, the Unifier: 8,032 decks
- Winota, Joiner of Forces: 5,801 decks
- Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa: 4,854 decks
- Brimaz, Blight of Oreskos: 4,553 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive: 3,597 decks
- Sisay, Weatherlight Captain: 3,236 decks
- Kilo, Apogee Mind: 3,045 decks
Often played with Skrelv, Defector Mite
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.