So what does that mean, exactly? When a creature with infect deals damage to a player, the player doesn’t lose any life as a result of the damage—he or she gets that many poison counters instead. If a player ever has ten or more poison counters, that player loses the game.
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How do infect counters work?
There are no such thing as “Infect” counters. “Infect” is an ability. It means that it deals damage in the form of poison counters to players and in the form of -1/-1 counters to creatures. If a 2/2 creature with Infect deals damage to another creature, that creature gets two -1/-1 counters.
Does infect do damage?
Yes, infect modifies the results of any damage dealt by a source with infect but it is still damage and if its dealt during the combat damage step’s turn-based action, it is combat damage.
How does proliferate work with infect?
Infect doesn’t alter your opponent’s life total, it only creates poison counters that are attached to that player. They’re regular counters like any other and can be modified by the proliferate ability. They can, and people do proliferate them.
Is infect an ability?
Infect is a keyword ability that was introduced in Scars of Mirrodin. It is centered in black and green with some artifacts having the keyword. It combines poisonous and wither abilities.
How much infect damage can you take in Commander?
Infect deals damage to players in the form of poison counters, but it’s still dealing damage. The rules for commander do not state which form that 21 damage needs to be in. Thus, you can win if you deal 15 combat damage normally with your commander, then give it infect and hit them for 6 infect damage.
Is poison the same as infect?
Note that there is a big difference between poisonous and infect, though – a poisonous creature deals combat damage normally, then applies a fixed number of poison counters, while a creature with infect does not cause the player to lose life and likes pump effects much more.
Does infect trigger monarch?
Yes. The damage is still damage, and any triggered abilities based on damage will trigger.
Can you regenerate a sacrificed creature?
Description. Sacrificing or saccing is purposely or forcefully removing a permanent from play. This can be due to an effect on the card itself, the effect of another permanent already in play, coming into or leaving play or a spell such as an instant or sorcery. A sacrificed permanent cannot be regenerated.
Does infect trigger Lifelink?
Abilities that trigger on damage being dealt will trigger if a source with infect deals damage, if appropriate. Creatures with Infect still deal damage, so all abilities that trigger* (such as Lifelink) still function. Damage dealt to a player by a source with infect causes that player to get that many poison counters.
How do poison counters work MTG?
A poison counter is a counter that, unlike most other counters, is placed on players rather than objects. When a player has ten or more poison counters, that player loses the game.However, a player may use Karn Liberated to restart the game and remove the poison counters in the process.
Can you proliferate token creatures?
Proliferate doesn’t interact with creature tokens.
Can you counter proliferate?
When you proliferate, you choose any number of permanents or players with at least one of any kind of counter on them. The counters don’t have to be of the same type, and you don’t have to choose everything with a counter on it.
Does infect deal poison counters?
Infect applies to any damage, not just combat damage—so if you can somehow give your Prodigal Pyromancer infect, its ability will deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.
Does infect replace combat damage?
Infect replaces combat damage, so if it connects, you take no damage but 3 poison counters. If you block, the blocking creature will take no damage and 3 -1/-1 counters.
Do poison counters stack?
They don‘t *quite* have poisonous 2, they have two instances of poisonous 1. However: 702.67b If a creature has multiple instances of poisonous, each triggers separately. So it will end up looking a lot like poisonous 2, except that each poison counter will be given by a separate trigger.
Does infect work in Commander?
Infect has been powerful in almost every constructed format, with one exception: Commander. While not unpopular by any means, Infect simply does not translate well to Commander.
How do you beat infect MTG?
Infect is good at playing around removal. It has cost-efficient spells that both defend against kill spells and tack on secondary effects (unblockability, pump, etc.). One way to beat that is to overwhelm an Infect opponent with removal spells, but this is often card-intensive and forces you to keep mana open.
How many poison counters do you need to win Commander?
Yes, 10 poison counters kills you in Commander.
How does infect work on Planeswalkers?
Damage from a creature with infect affects a planeswalker the same way that a creature without infect would: the loss of loyalty counters. If Gideon turns into a creature, part of that effect is the line that says “prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn”.
Does preventing combat damage stop infect?
Damage prevention effects do indeed prevent all five forms the damage can take: damage marked on a creature, -1/-1 counters on a creature (from sources with wither or infect), life loss of a player, poison counters on a player (from sources with infect), or removal of loyalty counters from a planeswalker.