Infected Vermin
Creature — Rat
: This creature deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Threshold — 
: This creature deals 3 damage to each creature and each player. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Odyssey
- Price
- $0.41
- EDHREC rank
- #21286
Infected Vermin makes every opponent discard their entire hand — the ceiling is as high as mass discard gets. The cost is steep: five mana and paying half your life total means you're often trading your late-game stability for a hand-wipe that resolved at the worst possible time.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Infected Vermin has its only real home, and even there it's a narrow fit. Four opponents means four empty hands when it resolves, which is a legitimate game-swing — but five mana plus a life payment that scales with your current total is a real cost in a format where life matters for shock lands, ad nauseam lines, and general survival. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but dedicated discard strategies in those formats have cheaper, more reliable options and will never touch this card. Infected Vermin is a Commander card through and through, best in decks that can recoup life loss or are already ahead on board when they fire it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.41 bulk tier
At $0.41, Infected Vermin sits firmly in bulk territory, which is appropriate for a card with a narrow use case. The price is stable — there's no meaningful demand pressure to push it higher, and it's cheap enough to pick up on a whim for a chaos or discard-themed Commander build.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.