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Venom Connoisseur

Creature — Human Druid1 generic manaGreen mana

Deathtouch is combat math's great equalizer, and this druid weaponizes it in stages. The first creature to follow it into play arms the druid alone; the second creature to enter in the same turn resolves the trigger a second time and spreads deathtouch across every creature you control until end of turn. That second-resolution clause is the real hinge. Once two bodies have entered on one turn, your smallest tokens erase their biggest threats: a lone token trades evenly with a game-ender, and an alpha strike into an untapped board stops being suicide. Because the ability counts resolutions per turn rather than creatures present, tokens generated in a wide swing, flicker effects, and cheap creatures all feed the same escalator, so stacking two entries before combat is the entire plan. The catch is that a 2/2 dies to any removal before it can matter, which is exactly the bargain it strikes: it wants a board already committed to the table and pays that board back in a single burst rather than a trickle. It is a payoff calibrated for the moment the game collapses into a numbers race, turning a modest Human Druid into the linchpin of a go-wide swing where nothing you control blocks or attacks for free anymore.

Venom Connoisseur (snc)
SNC · #161uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, all creatures you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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