Pestilence

Rarity Assignment Errors

What cards do you think were the biggest rarity mistakes? As in, cards that were unnecessarily high rarity, or cards that warped limited environments being too low rarity.

The classic mistake was Pestilence at common in Urza’s Saga.

Limited Pestilence Rarity Sagas

Reprint Request

Hi Mark! I hope you are having a great weekend. I don't know if you can pass this message to the team that handles reprints to put in the to-reprint list the ten common cards that still had a old frame on the Pauper Cube: Deftblade Elite, Phantom Nomad, Capsize, Miscalculation, Ashes to Ashes, Pestilence, Tortured Existence, Silver Drake, Temporal Spring and Cavern Harpy. Thanks!

I’ll pass the list along.

Ashes to Ashes Capsize Card Frames Card Printing Cavern Harpy Deftblade Elite Draft Formats Drake Harpy Miscalculation Nomad Pauper Pestilence Phantom Nomad Reprints Silver Drake Temporal Spring Tortured Existence

Black's Pestilence Space

Conductor of Cacophony is a fairly recent card playing in the Pestilence space in B (and it's even in a JMP pack themed around that mechanic). Is it in-pie because of it's differences (paying the counters maybe)? Or is it something that we shouldn't expect more of?

The ability is core red, not black. It’s a slight bend in black though, not a break.

Bend / Break Black Conductor of Cacophony Mechanics Pestilence Red

Pestilence Color Pie

Mr. Rosewater, is Pestilence/Pyrohemia in-color-pie for both black and red nowadays?

It’s in red now.

Black Color Pie Mark Rosewater Pestilence Pyrohemia Red

Black Damage Scope

Are "damage to each creature and each player" cards like Pestilence and Last Laugh still in pie for black?

Not really. It can do -N/-N to all creatures.

Black Creatures Last Laugh Pestilence

Effect Color Distribution

Is the Pestilence/Pyrohemia effect both black and red? I'd think it was black only if it gained life as well, but Pestilence Demon saw print recently suggesting it is still a black effect too. How so when black also gets drain life effects and mass destruction?

It’s a black effect. Pyrohemia is from Planar Chaos, the set that experimented with an alternate reality where the color pie had played out differently.

Black Card Printing Color Pie Colors Demon Drain Life Pestilence Demon Planar Chaos Pyrohemia Red

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