Hand of the Praetors
Card Information
Type: Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Scars of Mirrodin (SOM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 66
Oracle Text
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) Other creatures you control with infect get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell with infect, target player gets a poison counter.
Keywords
Format Legalities
Related Cards
Card Rulings
- January 1, 2011
Damage from a source with infect is damage in all respects. If the source with infect also has lifelink, damage dealt by that source also causes its controller to gain that much life. Damage from a source with infect can be prevented or redirected. Abilities that trigger on damage being dealt will trigger if a source with infect deals damage, if appropriate.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
The last ability triggers only if Hand of the Praetors is already on the battlefield at the time you cast a creature spell with infect. Casting Hand of the Praetors itself will not cause its own last ability to trigger.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Damage from a source with infect affects planeswalkers normally.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
The -1/-1 counters remain on the creature indefinitely. They’re not removed if the creature regenerates or the turn ends.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Infect’s effect applies to any damage, not just combat damage.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
If damage from a source with infect that would be dealt to a player is prevented, that player doesn’t get poison counters. If damage from a source with infect that would be dealt to a creature is prevented, that creature doesn’t get -1/-1 counters.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
Whenever you cast a creature spell with infect, Hand of the Praetors’s last ability triggers and goes on the stack on top of it. It will resolve before the creature spell does.
Source: wotc - January 1, 2011
A player who has ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.