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◇ Catalog #73

Plague of Vermin

shm·#73·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Carl Critchlow

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May '08

18 yr ago

Value

$25.08+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $26 · low $24

NM$25.1

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$23–$26modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $25low $0.02range 126800.0%n 57

Where to buy / sell

TCGplayer eBay sold Cardmarket EU Star City

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #7,205 · Niche pick

Variants

Foil$67

Nonfoil$25

Gameplay

Sorcery

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 5

2008-05-01wotc

The amount of life a player may spend must be equal to or less than that player's life total; you can't spend life you haven't got.

2008-05-01wotc

In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player on a team gets a chance to pay life. The team's life total is adjusted in between.

2008-05-01wotc

If a player chooses to spend life, their life total goes down immediately. This will affect how much life that player can spend the next time the process gets around to them. If a player chooses to pay life three different times during this process, for example, that counts as three separate instances of losing life, not as one.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $25.08. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $25.38 across 57 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from SHM — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #73 of *Shadowmoor*, the set that shipped alongside the May 2008 Shadowmoor release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity black, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {6}{B} (7 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #7,205 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Carl Critchlow. Rarix catalogs 922 other cards credited to this artist.