There is no better way to deal with poison counters. I just wish that Clockspinning could have been worded in a way to deal with poison counters.
Posted By:
mrredhatter
(2/25/2010 8:04:56 PM)
The only card in Magic that can save you from those infectious bastards and you don't rate it higher. What gives?
Posted By:
tavaritz
(5/29/2011 11:03:28 PM)
I like how they made this in Homelands, where I am pretty sure there were no Poison ceatures.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(8/19/2011 7:17:28 AM)
It's the best (and only) at what it does. It's going to be in your sideboard waiting to be fetched by Buring Wish. Assuming you're playing a white deck, the damage should be irrelevant.
Posted By:
Artsy_Wumpus
(5/4/2010 1:00:29 PM)
Only a matter of time before WotC comes out with something that balances the insane poison-producing power of recent blocks. Until then, Leeches rules.
Posted By:
TheHandyman
(2/20/2011 8:14:10 PM)
In EDH, this card is even better. Poison counters kill you even at 40 life, but leeches converts it into real damage. With recursion and lifegain, this can make infect decks burn out quite quickly.
Or, more likely, they're just going to attack the guy that doesn't have the hoser counter to their deck.
Posted By:
ShakaUVM
(7/5/2011 5:57:40 PM)
Where it once was just "Meh", it's become quite passable against dedicated Infect decks.
Posted By:
infernox10
(4/19/2011 11:43:31 PM)
This card now has about thirty more votes than it did before Scars of Mirrodin block, and its rating is up about a star and a half. Infect much?
Posted By:
Salient
(2/2/2012 5:01:52 PM)
@JFM2796 - At that point, there were 2 or 3 creatures that gave poison counters (and one artifact that created poisonous creatures). The Crypt Cobra and Sabertooth Cobra came two blocks later. Swamp Mosquito came in Alliances.
Posted By:
Alsebra
(7/26/2012 9:32:51 AM)
Doesn't hose a good infect deck at all, which can kill you in one hit with relative ease. You're either going to have 0 or 10, and have no chance to play this. Melira, Sylvok Outcast is much more useful in that situation.
Against casual infect decks, yeah it will shut them down.
Posted By:
Bobth
(4/2/2013 7:55:38 PM)