poison counters mtg cards Hand of the Praetors [Scars of Mirrodin] You get two poison counters. Poison counter - MTG Wiki

Here is the text in "non-confusing-speak": Whenever a player plays a counterspell or plays a card that makes use of counters, you get to choose to do one of the followingcounter the next spell

Wipe the board so your creatures return with flying

But outside of that, the madness for three mana, and one fewer Red helps to make the cost more manageable, while the effect is no less face-smashingly real

Be careful when doing so, since its easy to bend or ding a card at this point

If youre in a black deck, you should be playing Living Death, and I wont hear about it otherwise

Lastly, it has a very strong flip side represented by the new Tibalt planeswalker, albeit a bit too expensive at 7 Mana