Contagion
Mana cost {3}{B}{B}.
You may pay 1 life and exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Distribute two -2/-1 counters among one or two target creatures.
Contagion is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Alliances printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€1.65) · TCGplayer ($1.98) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €1.43 and €1.97 in that time.
How often Contagion is played
Contagion is maindecked in 3 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (2%), averaging 1.0 copies; kept in 3 sideboards (2%); used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 6 of them play it (8%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Contagion
- Contamination (1x)
Tournament decks with Contagion
- Zombie Tribal: 1st Place at Cloudpost PM 7/26 (2× sideboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 1st Place at Premodern Xpress #1 (1× mainboard)
- Mono Black Clerics: 3rd Place at IX Torneo Mensual (1× sideboard)
- Mono Black Aggro: 4th Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (1× mainboard)
- Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (1× mainboard)
- Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (1× sideboard)
