>>83414621It was cancer for a while. The lead designer Mark Rosewater said it was one of his biggest regrets to bring back poison and make it good. Idk if you played magic but keep in mind that you can't directly attack creatures in that game. The only way to get rid of creatures is to assign your own creature to block it or use a kill spell. So you'd play a creature like that, pop your opponent and when they try to kill it you could use something like this and take half their effective life total in one chunk or kill them outright with another buff if you had it