Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
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What it does
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Combos with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Scurry Oak Anointer Priest Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- The Locust God Sheoldred, the Apocalypse Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- The Locust God Blood Artist Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- The Locust God Guide of Souls Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Near-infinite -1/-1 counters
- Near-infinite energy counters
- Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons Zulaport Cutthroat Infinite
- Destroy all creatures opponents control
- Destroy each creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control
- Infinite -1/-1 counters
- Near-infinite card draw
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Lock
- Scurry Oak Zulaport Cutthroat Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite lifeloss
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Scurry Oak Verdant Sun's Avatar Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Scurry Oak Deathgreeter Infinite
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Near-infinite death triggers
- Near-infinite creature ETB
- Near-infinite lifegain triggers
- Near-infinite creature LTB
- Near-infinite creature sacrifice triggers
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
12 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-03-19
You may activate Yawgmoth's first activated ability without choosing a target creature. You'll just draw a card. However, if you choose a target and it becomes illegal before the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve and you won't draw a card.
- 2021-03-19
Protection from Humans refers only to the creature type Human. As far as Yawgmoth is concerned, you, your opponents, and planeswalkers aren't Humans.
- 2022-12-08
To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- 2022-12-08
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- 2022-12-08
If a permanent has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action until that permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- 2022-12-08
Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- 2023-02-04
If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
- 2023-02-04
Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
- 2023-02-04
An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
- 2023-02-04
You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- 2023-02-04
If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- 2023-02-04
To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
As a commander
Decks built with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician in the command zone.
Published decks
Decklists players have published with Yawgmoth, Thran Physician in the command zone, newest first. A deck that has been played carries the win rate it earned in real tracked games.
- Yawgmoth 0 games —
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olinda the Oblivious | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sahir, Visitor in Darkness | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Black 2 decks
Every version of Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
6 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
Final Fantasy: Through the Ages
- Normal
- $26.43
- Foil
- $143.94
Dominaria Remastered
- Normal
- $29.07
- Foil
- $31.24
Dominaria Remastered
- Normal
- $24.06
- Foil
- $47.26
Inverted
Dominaria Remastered
- Normal
- $25.19
- Foil
- $46.85
Time Spiral Remastered
- Normal
- $28.55
- Foil
- $100.45
- Normal
- $27.06
- Foil
- $44.65
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Yawgmoth, Thran Physician — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
