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$0.33
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$0.31
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€0.16
MTGO
0.03 tix
Virulent Silencer
Artifact Creature — Robot Assassin
Whenever a nontoken artifact creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
Nano-infectant: A category-Phi substance, capable of infecting both organics and artificials. Weaponizing it is a war crime.
2 / 3
Commander bracket
3
+
Bracket 3 and up — Upgraded
In a two-card combo
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.58
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos 1
Format legality
Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Penny
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Pauper EDH
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Rulings
- 2025-07-25
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.