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It makes them all far more dangerous you can’t simply soak up the damage any more because the threat is so much higher. Fynn here gives two poison counters per hit, which means you only need to hit someone five times to kill them.Ī lot of creatures with deathtouch tend to have one power, which means that it effectively quadruples their power if they hit your opponent directly. So poison gives one counter, generally speaking, irrelevant of damage.

Poison is a fixed version of that - because it turned out that it’s very easy to simply buff a single creature and kill people in one hit, often in a mere handful of turns. When a person has ten poison counters, they lose the game. Infect is an ability that transforms damage against a player into poison counters. To do so, we first need to explain Infect. That doesn’t sound all that remarkable, but the thing that makes him so powerful is the big old paragraph of text that reads: “Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals combat damage to a player, that player gets two poison counters.”īefore we get into things, let’s explain poison for those who’ve not heard of it before. He’s got a power of one, a toughness of three and comes with deathtouch. That’s not the only returning mechanic though, and our preview card shows off a gameplay element we’ve not seen in nearly a decade.įynn, the Fangbearer is a two-mana Green legendary creature - human warrior. It’s also a chance to revisit some classic mechanics, such as snow permanents. It sees the return of modal double-faced cards, which means more flexibility when building a deck, too. Kaldheim brings with it new keywords such as Foretell, which allows you to exile cards from your hand to play them later for slightly cheaper, and Boast - which is a lot like the Raid mechanic from Tarkir, but this time around you can use special effects on cards for a different cost. That means we’ll be getting a whole new set of legends to incorporate into the game, and new mechanics too. Kaldheim is a plane heavily inspired by Norse mythology. Magic: The Gathering’s next set is one with an incredibly metal inspiration.