Engineered Plague

Enchantment · Seventh Edition

Engineered Plague is a black card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Seventh Edition printing.

Price and printings: Cardmarket (€6.59) · TCGplayer ($7.62) · Scryfall

How often Engineered Plague is played

Engineered Plague is maindecked in 1 of 39 tournament decks in this archive (3%), averaging 2.0 copies; kept in 15 sideboards (38%); used by 5 of 17 tracked archetypes.

Counting only the 23 decks that can cast black cards, 16 of them play it (70%).

See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.

Premodern archetypes that play Engineered Plague

Dromar Control: The most important sideboard card in the deck: naming Goblin, Elf, Cleric or Soldier for Decree of Justice tokens single-handedly wins those matchups.

Tournament decks with Engineered Plague

Mono B Control: 7th Place at Premodern & Hooters 8th Edition (4× sideboard)
Machine Head: 4th Place at Premodern Mainz Monthly (4× sideboard)
zombies: 4th Place at La Parroquia Friday Night (3× sideboard)
Black Contamination: 3rd Place at PREM Brescia (3× sideboard)
Mono Black: 6th Place at PMPMPMPM XXXVIII (4× sideboard)
Clerics: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (3× sideboard)
Pox: 3rd Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 9ª Jornada (4× sideboard)
BG Rack: 3rd Place at Lega Milano 3/12 (2× sideboard)
Deadguy Angels: 1st Place at Lega Premodern La Contea (2× sideboard)
Dromar Control: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá (2× sideboard)
Moneyball Black: 2nd Place at Liga Paulista de Premodern 2026 (3× sideboard)
Super Wayfarer: 1st Place at Premodern Online Monthly (3× sideboard)
Dromar Solution: 3rd Place at Side Event Final Pudraiser (2× sideboard)
Black Clerics: 2nd Place at Lega Milano 3/9 (4× sideboard)
5 Color White Weenie: 4th Place at Grand Pre Louisville (2× mainboard)
5C Wizards Orb: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá – UGCardShop (3× sideboard)

Spicy brews with Engineered Plague

Hypnotic Wurm (3×)

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The Format

What is Premodern?

Premodern is a Magic: The Gathering format played with cards from Fourth Edition through Scourge (1995–2003), the game's golden era. It captures the feel of early competitive Magic: iconic old-border cards, meaningful decisions and a rich, interactive metagame, free of the power creep of later sets.

How it plays

Premodern is an eternal, non-rotating format. Games reward tight play, deckbuilding skill and knowledge of the metagame rather than raw speed. Combo, control, aggro and midrange all have a home, from Goblins and Stiflenought to Landstill, Replenish and The Rock.

Deck construction

Minimum 60-card main deck.
Up to a 15-card sideboard.
At most 4 copies of any single card (basic lands excepted).

A card is legal as long as its name appears in one of these sets. (Reprints in newer sets are legal too, but on Premodern Chronicles we always show the period-correct old-frame printing.)

Legal Sets