Do you consider the "poison mechanic" somewhat pop

Quetzilla · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 58

BEFORE VOTING:

By "popular" I mean to ask: do people like it? I am not asking, is poison popular in the sense that it gets played a lot. The point of this poll is for me to determine if people like the poison mechanic enough that they would like to see it elaborated on and made more interesting/playable.

Please ask anyone you can to vote as I only have a few days to use this information :O

Thanks

Concepcion · Joined: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 85

I think its a boring mechanic. Its too similar to death by life totals (just substituting 10 counters for 20 damage).

RichardDWade · Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 438

I recently played a newer player who wasn't bad, he just didn't know the past of magic. He stomped me the first game with a ld deck. I then proceeded to tally up the poison counters in g2 and he looked at me in disgust, said "Thats Gay!" and stormed away from the table... Baby... Sandler, you know who he is... I loooove poison... I was realy hoping Betrayers would reintroduce it because of all the snakes...

xmtgjunkiex · Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 135

i think poison counters are fun Very Happy

SOAD · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 231 Location: In my Comp

Poison mechanich os cool Cool

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

why are we voting on this i dont see the relevance

punkjay · Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 9

sonicqaz · Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 338

Quetzilla · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 58

My main purpose in asking this has to do with the "Great Designer Search" contest on www.magicthegathering.com (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/designersearch/round1).

Question 3 asks how you would improve an existing popular mechanic, and I wanted to see if poison could be considered "popular" enough to qualify. The fact that in its current state it is largely unplayable but (to me) still fairly cool, is why I want to use it as my mechanic to *improve* upon.

I hope that answers any questions as to the point of this poll. Please keep finding people to vote! Yes for Poison currently has the lead, but it would help to have a sizable margin one way or the other!

Laplie · League Staff Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 547

Russell_Nash · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Posts: 645 Location: Burn Ward

I’d consider it popular in casual only because its terrible in constructed and hilarious when you give a creature that makes poison counters the "tap: does 1 point of damage ability" then use blue untap effects to quickly ping them 10 times to kill them. Because Wizards didn’t have to foresight to include "when this creature deals COMBAT DAMAGE to a player" on any of the poison creatures it just begs to be busted for the humor of it.

It’s a bad mechanic in theory and in execution and for those reasons it is kind of popular in casual.

AKF · Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 65

maybe if you use mycosynth lattice and darksteel forge to keep them alive, they'd be kickass.

This mechanic would be really popular if there's an enchantment that gives everything poison, or else its not really playable, since they're all legacy.