Imagine Urza's horror and surprise when he tried to make sausages!
Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Though it's mana-heavy, it would be a 3-4-of in a good poison deck. Though now that we have Virulent Sliver, all old poison cards are pretty much obsolete...
Chrs84
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
What seemed to be a trend at the time of this card was that mtg the game worried about producing too powerful a card, especially when someone found just the right cards to go along with it- so what we have is a super solid gameplay in the card but Totally too much cost to deal with, it discourages use, but when has that ever stopped us?
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Funny in type 4, lol.
Dragon23
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Scars basically just told this card it's time was up. So many better poison dudes now, even artifacts that generate more poison tokens for less. Still a good old card.
Deepfried-Owls
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
With something like that anvil thingy thing that lowers costs for cards of a certain type based on the imprinted cards type or whatever.
But even with that, as mentioned before, there are much more cost efficient cards. Luckily, snakes are still a part of the game.
How can we build a deck around this card? Johnny, go!
NARFNra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Jeryc_Onyx
Notice that the tokens don't specify combat damage.
So if you're trying to make a deck based entirely around this card strategy(i.e. poison counters no infect), you'll want;
Craptons of colorless mana; Cloudpost, Urzatron, Candelabra of Tawnos, Artifact mana cards (like Vedalken), etc Ways to decrease the cost: Power Artifact, possibly some sort of artifact -> creature + heartstone/training grounds combo Ways to increase token number: Doubling Season/Parallel Lives/populate cards (fairly obvious but), anything that untaps artifacts (Voltaic/Galvanic Key), etc. Proliferate: Contagion stuff.
But most importantly, to make best use of the fact they aren't limited to combat damage, damage source tricks;
Pandemonium: Ability essentially becomes "{T}: Target player gets a poison counter, put a 1/1 Snake artifact creature token into play." It also makes you not feel bad about chump blocking. Shut up Debilitator Web. Portcullis might combo with this?
There's probably more somewhere but I can't think of any good ones. Suggestions anyway?
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you can generate enough mana to combo and win with this, you could have probably done it much faster running other things. That is all.
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But even with that, as mentioned before, there are much more cost efficient cards. Luckily, snakes are still a part of the game.
You go Blight Mamba!
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Notice that the tokens don't specify combat damage.
So if you're trying to make a deck based entirely around this card strategy(i.e. poison counters no infect), you'll want;
Craptons of colorless mana; Cloudpost, Urzatron, Candelabra of Tawnos, Artifact mana cards (like Vedalken), etc
Ways to decrease the cost: Power Artifact, possibly some sort of artifact -> creature + heartstone/training grounds combo
Ways to increase token number: Doubling Season/Parallel Lives/populate cards (fairly obvious but), anything that untaps artifacts (Voltaic/Galvanic Key), etc.
Proliferate: Contagion stuff.
But most importantly, to make best use of the fact they aren't limited to combat damage, damage source tricks;
Pandemonium: Ability essentially becomes "{T}: Target player gets a poison counter, put a 1/1 Snake artifact creature token into play." It also makes you not feel bad about chump blocking. Shut up Debilitator Web. Portcullis might combo with this?
There's probably more somewhere but I can't think of any good ones. Suggestions anyway?