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Poison CounterHow it works & interactions with other cards

By the ManaCount desk· 2 min read· Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Tokens· January 23, 2026
Carte Magic Poison Counter

Poison Counter is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

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Official card text

(A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

How it works : Poison Counter

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

No additional ruling has been published for this card.

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Interactions with other cards

These cards' text mentions Poison Counter.

Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}{G/P}: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery. Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Compleated ({B/P} can be paid with {B} or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.) 0: You draw a card and lose 1 life. Proliferate. −2: Target creature becomes a Treasure artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color" and loses all other card types and abilities. −9: If target player has fewer than nine poison counters, they get a number of poison counters equal to the difference.

Skrelv's Hive
Skrelv's Hive

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature token with toxic 1 and "This token can't block." Corrupted — As long as an opponent has three or more poison counters, creatures you control with toxic have lifelink.

Vraska's Fall
Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.

Infectious Inquiry
Infectious Inquiry

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Prologue to Phyresis
Prologue to Phyresis

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Draw a card.

Fynn, the Fangbearer
Fynn, the Fangbearer

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)

Infectious Bite
Infectious Bite

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Each opponent gets a poison counter.

Venerated Rotpriest
Venerated Rotpriest

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, target opponent gets a poison counter.

Glistening Sphere
Glistening Sphere

This artifact enters tapped. When this artifact enters, proliferate. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Corrupted — {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters.

Ichor Rats
Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.) When this creature enters, each player gets a poison counter.

Phyresis Outbreak
Phyresis Outbreak

Each opponent gets a poison counter. Then each creature your opponents control gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each poison counter its controller has.

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