Contamination
Mana cost {2}{B}.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you sacrifice a creature.
If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.
Contamination is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Urza's Saga printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€18.42) · TCGplayer ($17.71) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €13.55 and €18.42 in that time.
How often Contamination is played
Contamination is maindecked in 4 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 2.8 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 75 decks that can cast black cards, 4 of them play it (5%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Contamination
- Contamination: Three mana, the lock: if a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount. Islands, Plains, City of Brass, Urza lands and City of Traitors all make one black mana, so blue, white, red and green spells stop. It does not touch mana from creatures (Birds of Paradise, Llanowar Elves), artifacts (Mox Diamond, Thran Dynamo, Chromatic Sphere) or alternative costs (Fireblast, Gush, Daze, Foil). In each of your upkeeps it costs a creature. A Seal of Cleansing already on the battlefield needs no mana to destroy it, and a Pernicious Deed there only needs {X}.
Tournament decks with Contamination
- Contamination: 1st Place at UC Late Night (3× mainboard)
- Contamination: 6th Place at Premodern & Hooters 9 (3× mainboard)
- Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (4× mainboard)
- Pox: 3rd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 9ª Jornada (1× mainboard)
