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.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature token with infect for each poison counter your opponents have.
Mox strategy
Phyrexian Swarmlord is a strong late-game payoff for infect decks and poison-focused commander shells. Its main strength is snowballing: once opponents have poison counters, it makes more infect bodies every upkeep, quickly overwhelming boards and closing games.
Best use cases are in dedicated infect builds, especially where you can reliably give multiple opponents poison counters early. It pairs well with cheap infect attackers, proliferate effects, and ways to push through combat damage, because every extra poison counter increases future token production. Anything that helps it survive a turn cycle is valuable, since the card is very threatening if it untaps.
It supports a poison-counter engine and board-wide pressure, but it is slow at six mana and needs setup to be excellent. In Commander, it’s best when your deck can already spread poison efficiently rather than trying to use it as a standalone finisher.
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Format legality
- standard—
- pioneer—
- modernLegal
- legacyLegal
- vintageLegal
- commanderLegal
- pauper—
- brawl—
- historic—
- alchemy—
- oathbreakerLegal