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Sheoldred's Headcleaver

First printed in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (2023)

Sheoldred's Headcleaver

Creature — Phyrexian Warrior

Menace
Toxic 2 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get two poison counters.)

The punishment for sedition, like every other crime in the Dross Pits, is execution.

2/4

Illustrated by
Andrey Kuzinskiy

Legality

Rulings (7)

  • Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
  • Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
  • Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
  • Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
  • A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
  • If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
  • Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.

Prices

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

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Sheoldred's Headcleaver in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), Premier Draft 52.7% -2.1 -0.1 26094
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE), Sealed 56.7% +0.4 +2.4 4047
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen