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Fungal Infection

First printed in Dominaria (2018)

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Fungal Infection

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Create a 1/1 green Saproling creature token.

To thallids, the whole world is just a pile of mulch to grow saprolings in.

Illustrated by
Filip Burburan

Legality

Rulings (2)

  • The target creature will be on the battlefield when you create the Saproling token, even if it’s about to die for having 0 toughness or lethal damage. Its abilities may affect the token’s creation or trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Abilities that trigger this way will resolve after the target creature has died.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Fungal Infection tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t create a Saproling token.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Pauper In 31 of 1882 decks (1.6%), most in Golgari Gardens

Share of decks
1.6%
▼ 0.5 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-10: 0.4% 2026-08-17: 1.2% 2026-08-24: 3.5% 2026-08-31: 2.5% 2026-09-07: 2.0% 2026-09-14: 2.7% 2026-09-21: 2.0% 2026-09-28: 1.4% 2026-10-05: 1.4% 2026-10-12: 2.6% 2026-10-19: 1.4% 2026-10-26: 0.8%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
31
31 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.1
in the main deck
Win rate
60%
8 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Golgari Gardens 2.1% 72%
BG (unclassified) 0.9% 6%
Golgari Pestilence 0.6% 8%
Mono-Black Sacrifice 0.5% 11%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Troll of Khazad-dûm100%17.3
Haunted Mire97%31.3
Khalni Garden97%23.3
Fanatical Offering97%17.2
Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher97%14.7
Eviscerator's Insight97%13.8
Ichor Wellspring97%10.9
Lembas97%10.3
Campfire97%8.7
Nihil Spellbomb97%6.8

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Golgari Gardens
Ectoplazm in Rebound Samedi
5-0
100%
Golgari Gardens
Trailovsky in Pauper Challenge 32
6-2
75%
Golgari Gardens
__Noob__ in Pauper Challenge 32
6-2
75%
Golgari Gardens
NickNorman in Pauper Challenge 32
5-2
71%
Golgari Gardens
NickNorman in Pauper Challenge 32
5-2
71%
Golgari Gardens
NickNorman in Pauper Challenge 32
5-2
71%
Golgari Gardens
BrunoGuerra in Pauper Challenge 32
4-2
67%
Golgari Gardens
NickNorman in Pauper Challenge 32
4-2
67%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

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1 main #32
of 56
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1 main #31
of 64
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