Infect Vs. Toxic

[@bathsaltcircus9630]

Woot woot nice vid! Very good info

[@MrLucasrn]

I wish to see more infect creatures… especially a “lone wolf” with infect. I think that was the original design for rot wolf.

[@LostPlaneswalker]

I'm not sure we will ever truly get more infect creatures but anything can happen. I hope you have a great day!

[@magman687]

Thank you for the video but I do have one question I haven't played Magic the Gathering in a very long time I used to play in the late 90s and early 2000 and my question is whenever a player gets 10 toxic counters on them do they lose the game similar to poison and infected. Thanks again for the video

[@LostPlaneswalker]

Yes, so toxic adds poison counters like infect so the same rules do apply. Toxic just adds counters based on the toxic number instead of the creatures power. Thanks for checking out my video and I hope you have a great day!

[@magman687]

@@LostPlaneswalker thank you so much and I hope you have a good day as well

[@shado7418]

Great explanation, love your channel, you deserve more views. Can you do Phyrexian Oil Counters in the future?

[@MrBokkata]

Both put poison counters, with 10 you win gg

[@skaven969]

Hey can we have a toxic Vs poisonous

[@LostPlaneswalker]

I can do that

[@skaven969]

@@LostPlaneswalker thank you so much! If I have virulent sliver in play and he says; slivers have poisonous 1, and then in this new set all will be one, karumonix gives rats toxic 1, what happens when I play a changeling which will be both rat and sliver, how is damage met? And giving it infect with tainted swipe or triumph of the hordes

[@Ariph4]

what about giving infect to a toxic creature ... which could lead to an instant Knock out.

[@Sentraxion]

i don't think so, since infect gives poison instead of damage, but toxic needs damage to work

[@LostPlaneswalker]

So I have learned that infect still deals damage but in the form of poison counters. These abilities should work together. I hope you have a great day!

[@keeganwilson9062]

Toxic seems better suited for commander since it's better at giving poison to multiple players the problem will be that everyone is going to target the toxic player first.

[@KevinG9012]

This is just stupid in my opinion. Infect was a better mechanic. It had more applications and was easier to understand. I feel like introducing Toxic just muddies the water for people trying to learn mtg. Now we’ll be explaining infect vs toxic.

[@FioFiorello]

Agreed. Toxic is almost exactly the same as Poisonous and Infect was just their attempt to rebalance Poisonous. So this is just them rebreaking infect for no real reason

[@PattyGoesZoom]

Don't forget poisonous also exists

[@LostPlaneswalker]

Yeah, I'm sure poison counters will come back again in another variation in 10 years or so too. I hope you have a great day!

[@VultureXV]

Why call it "toxic" when "poisonous" keyword exists already.....

[@TheDevlain]

poisonous is a triggered ability, toxic is a static ability. It's like the difference between lifelink and the card "spirit link"

[@thijsmussen551]

It seems to me that the Toxic mechanic is more powerfull then the Infect mechanic. Creature vs creature damage is the same. Creature vs player damage is both normal damage and poison counter. Infect only deals poison counters to players. I hope this mechanic will be banned in EDH.

[@giordy9396]

Yeah but a 10/10 creature with infect will oneshot you, a 10/10 with toxic 1 will take 4 turns at least to knock you out, toxic is far weaker and for sure more balanced tho. Anyway, little curiosity, toxic has already been in magic, in future sight as "poisonous" :)

[@VultureXV]

Boy do I have news for you... The new Abzan Phyrexian Commander has Toxic!

[@MrBokkata]

As simple as putting something in your deck that removes counters my friend...

[@VultureXV]

@@MrBokkata I know of three cards that deal with counters and two of them only deal with permanents; Hex Parasite and Vampire Hexmage. The only other I can think of is Solemnity. The problem with the game is that they add "kill" spells before mechanisms of dealing with those "kill" spells.

[@CYCO1631]

A card like Spinebiter should be banned. Doesn't take much to get his power to 10, then he one shots you if he's not removed before combat damage is finalized.

[@freekill1018]

Infect was best anything less is just wizards trying to water phyrexia down

[@CYCO1631]

Infect is so unfair in Commander. There are lots of ways to gain life back, and you start with 40... Conversely, there ate very, VERY few ways to remove poison counters, and you're only allowed 10!

[@creamsoduh6392]

Excellent vid! Earned a like and subscribe from me!