Germ

Germ
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Germ is an exclusively black creature type with base power and toughness of 0, which only appears on tokens. Germs were introduced for Mirrodin Besieged and represent phyrexian microorganisms carrying Phyresis.

The first Germs were created by living weapons, which are attached to it. Thus, living weapons are themselves creatures until they die or their controller chooses to upgrade a different creature, with the detaching of the equipment and killing the Germ, as it is now a 0/0 creature.

Grip of Phyresis is an Blue Instant featured in Commander 2016 that also makes use of of the this technique.

Tokens

Token Name	Color	Type Line	P/T	Text Box	Source	Printings
Phyrexian Germ	Black	Creature — Phyrexian Germ	0/0		Batterbone Batterskull Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus Bonehoard Flayer Husk Grip of Phyresis Kaldra Compleat Lashwrithe Mortarpod Necropouncer Nettlecyst Scytheclaw Sickleslicer Skinwing Strandwalker Tangleweave Armor