---
name: "Yawgmoth, Thran Physician"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}{B}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Human Cleric"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Protection", "Proliferate"]
set: "FCA"
set_name: "Final Fantasy: Through the Ages"
collector_number: "11"
rarity: "mythic"
artist: "Mark Winters"
oracle_id: "a1e232c0-dc38-47be-a5a0-f68bc1d86a29"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/yawgmoth-thran-physician-fca"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}{B}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
- **Keywords:** Protection, Proliferate

## Oracle Text
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

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## Printing Details
- **Set:** Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (FCA) #11
- **Rarity:** Mythic
- **Artist:** Mark Winters
- **Total Printings:** 7 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2021-03-19)* You may activate Yawgmoth's first activated ability without choosing a target creature. You'll just draw a card. However, if you choose a target and it becomes illegal before the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve and you won't draw a card.
- *(2021-03-19)* Protection from Humans refers only to the creature type Human. As far as Yawgmoth is concerned, you, your opponents, and planeswalkers aren't Humans.
- *(2022-12-08)* To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
- *(2022-12-08)* If a permanent has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action until that permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.
- *(2023-02-04)* You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
- *(2023-02-04)* Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.