Toxic Burst | Venom Burst

[Drake_XIV]

NAME: Toxic Burst ELEMENT: Death COST: 3 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 2 damage to the target for every two poison counters in your posession.	NAME: Venom Burst ELEMENT: Death COST: 5 TYPE: Spell ATK|HP: TEXT: Deal 2 damage to the target for every two poison counters on the field.

ART: Flaivoloka [http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1046189] IDEA: Drake_XIV NOTES: A bit more direct CC for and involves you being poisoned. Poison counters in your possession not only include the poison on you, but the poison on your creatures. Purify counters as negative poison counters, so it could be a healing bolt too... SERIES:

[furballdn]

This idea was done before. Mostly agreed OP since poison damage persists after a turn.

[Drake_XIV]

I am not surprised.  I was unable to search, but it's reall becoming a bad habit of mine...

[Absol]

  do have way to infect creatures. Virus and Plague.
Like many said before, pump spell for poison counter is OP since the damage persists. To help balancing, maybe:
Make the poison counter inflicted lower. Like half or one third of the average bolt's damage. This way, it have to pass for 2 or 3 turns to break even.
Make it can only target creature. If you mention something about CC, then this is one way.

[Drake_XIV]

Nah, it's too similar in that regard then.

Updated with an alternative.

[Absol]

Why is the upped more expensive than the unupped? I assume it's editing error.
Against poison decks, this is too powerful, while in most decks, it is utterly useless.
To compare: for every Deadly Poison your opponent use, you can almost instant CC any creature (9 damage, most creatures have <9 HP). And poison-based deck usually have only poisoning as their only winning condition. SPlat, Poison Dial, Speed Poison, etc.

Suggestion: invert the effect. Deal 1 damage for every 3 poison counter in your possession.
But even then, it will still be situational.

[Drake_XIV]

Situational?  Say hello to Parasite and Toadfish.  Also, there is the surprising use with Purify as healing...

But I agree that it can be broken when used as such.  I guess I'll meet you halfway.  1 damage for every 2.

The increased cost was made when considering the player's use of Poison and Plague against the opponent.

[Drake_XIV]

Updated with attempt to balance.

[Absol]

Note on Parasite and Toadfish:
Parasite: fragile creature, slow CC.
Toadfish: Trio if using this, good luck with quanta balancing.

1 damage for every 2 is a good balance. You'll have to have 10 counter to break even with Lightning.
If this is the case, it could use cost reduction too. 2 | 1 is good enough.
(actually if you want to go with 1:1 ratio, 3 | 2 could be just fine, but i suggest the damage : poison ratio to be no higher than 1)

Question: why don't you make it so that it deals damage based on opponent's poison counter instead of yours? It could be more of poison support card rather than poison deck counter (no pun intended)

EDIT: ninja update. Let's see if this post could still be useful.

[Drake_XIV]

Note on Parasite and Toadfish:
Parasite: fragile creature, slow CC.
Toadfish: Trio if using this, good luck with quanta balancing.

That was the point.  It's slow CC, so you could easily build up poison counters on your side without too much trouble.  Also, Voodoo doll?

[ndclub]

Personally think there is far too much of a jump in strength from non-upgraded to upgraded, so in my mind its probably the non-upgraded needing and buff. I like situational nuke cards but this one just does not make sense to me thematically. I dont get how poison counters all over can be converted into raw damage above and beyond the normal poison damage or transferred into one creature or player. Having trouble supporting this one

[Drake_XIV]

The idea is that you excrete the toxins that have been implanted on your side and use them to strike the target.  However, the toxins lose their potency and only damage for one turn.