When a player has ten or more poison counters, that player loses the game. A player with at least one poison counter is considered poisoned. Poison is intended to be a fundamentally different win condition from life totals because poison counters cannot be removed.

Can you proliferate poison counters on a player?

To proliferate, choose any number of players and/or permanents that each have at least one counter of any type. Each player chosen gets a counter of a kind that player has (so far, poison counters are the only counters players can get).

How many poison counters does it take to kill a player?

Deathtouch 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.)

How do you remove poison counters?

If you want to remove poison counters you will only have one way—Leeches. This answer is an attempt to create a canonical list: Leeches (Mark Rosewater intended this to be the only way to get rid of poison counters, but it no longer is) Karn Liberated (his -14 ability removes all poison counters, among other things)

Does double strike hit a player twice?

Double strike A keyword ability seen on creatures. Creatures with double strike deal their combat damage twice. All remaining attacking and blocking creatures, as well as the ones with double strike, deal combat damage during this second step.

How do poison counters work in Commander?

It only lists one additional rule for winning/losing the game. Yes, 10 poison counters kills you in Commander. No, poison damage doesn’t count double, Commanders that deal poison damage, deal damage as any other poison creature would deal damage.

How do infect counters work?

“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.