Toxic

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Toxic N adds poison to combat damage. A player dealt combat damage by a creature with toxic N also gets N poison counters.

How it works

• Toxic does not replace the creature's normal combat damage; it adds poison counters on top.
• A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game, so toxic is a parallel clock alongside normal life loss.
• Multiple instances of toxic add together: a creature with toxic 1 and toxic 2 gives 3 poison counters.

Rules notes

• Toxic only triggers on combat damage to a player, not to creatures or planeswalkers.
• Combat damage assigned and dealt by a single creature counts once, no matter how it was distributed.

Rule reference

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