Malignant Plaguecaster
SWORD: what Malignant Plaguecaster kills
Damage for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts kill ~48 pts in one activation.Typical shooter: 44 per 100
Best against line infantry, weakest against heavy vehicles and monsters
Into each enemy type
Units near it by SWORD
Across the game· shooters
SHIELD: how hard Malignant Plaguecaster is to kill for its points
Toughness for its points
per 100 pts spent
Its 60 pts take ~155 pts of enemy units to kill.Typical shooter: 298 per 100
Units near it by SHIELD
Across the game· shooters
What reviewers say
5 reviewers- Buffs a Plague Marine squad's hits 4 of 5
- A pair in a Rhino is the army's flamers 3 of 5
- Still better than Typhus per point 1 of 5
- Helps deep strikers land 1 of 5
- Weak in melee 1 of 5
- Less good solo than before 1 of 5
Compare
| Unit | Letter | SWORD | SHIELD | Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malignant Plaguecaster60 pts | S | Top 4% | Bottom 29% | 88of 119 |
| Biologus Putrifier60 pts | S | Bottom 28% | Bottom 30% | 46of 119 |
| Foul Blightspawn60 pts | A | Top 37% | Bottom 30% | 4of 119 |
Leading a squad
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 80 | 65 |
| SHIELD | 258 | 279 |
| Solo | Leading | |
|---|---|---|
| SWORD | 80 | 53 |
| SHIELD | 258 | 314 |
Per 100 pts: on its own, then for it and the squad together.
How we got these numbers
What we ran
Malignant Plaguecaster, 60 pts, with its datasheet's weapons. On its own: no leader, no stratagems, no other units' auras.
SWORD
Enemy points it kills in one activation, per 100 pts of its own, against a mix of targets weighted like top tournament lists.
60 pts → kills ~48 pts → 80 per 100SHIELD
Enemy points it takes to kill it, per 100 pts of its own: the points of the cheapest units from top lists that kill it 80% of the time. It's per point, so a costly unit has to be much tougher to score the same.
~155 pts → 258 per 100Top and bottom %
Where each number ranks among the game's 404 shooters. How we score.
The letter
The average of 7 reviewers' newest Death Guard tier lists: The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (October board) (6 Oct), The Disgustingly Resilient Podcast (July board, daemon allies only) (28 Jul), Goonhammer (Tabletop Battles), faction review and September update (30 Sep), GeneralJannis (1 Oct), Grimdark Breakdown (10 Jul), Zeeto (14 Jun), The Yucky OutBack (three list videos) (3 Aug). A reviewer who would rather not be counted: tell us.
Lists
119 public Death Guard tournament lists, September – November 2026, from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Also from Listhammer. Organisers and players: ask us and we'll take a list or an event down. Numbers run 4 Nov.