MagicTheGathering.fyi

Festering Newt

Creature — Salamander

When this creature dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.06
EDHREC rank
#20919
Buy on TCGplayer
Festering Newt card art
Festering Newt trades for any creature with power 4 or less on death — free removal stapled to a one-mana body. The catch is that the payoff scales entirely with Bogbrew Witch being on the battlefield, making this a build-around piece rather than a standalone threat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Festering Newt is a bulk rare in every format that theoretically supports it, and in practice sees play in exactly one context: the Bogbrew Witch package. In Commander, that package is a casual tribal novelty rather than a competitive engine, so Festering Newt shows up in flavor-first builds rather than optimized lists. Pauper is the one format where its one-mana body and on-death trigger could matter on curve, but the Witch combo requires too many moving parts to compete. Everywhere else — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy — faster, more consistent threats make this a non-starter.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.06 bulk tier

At $0.06, Festering Newt is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. That price is stable because demand is essentially zero outside of players completing the Bogbrew Witch package, and that demand isn't going anywhere.

Explore

Sources

Mentioned

← All cards

Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.