Creatures who are dealt -1-1 counters by a creature with infect.....these counters stay on a creature past the turn they were dealt, adding up, until the toughness is destroyed thus killing the creature correct? And the amount of -1-1 counters that a creature receives is equal to the amount of damage it was hit with even if it was blocked from a creature with infect....? If a creature was strong enough to block and not die from a creature with infect does it still take the -1-1 counters? And how many?
Creatures who are dealt -1-1 counters by a creature with infect.....these counters stay on a creature past the turn they were dealt, adding up, until the toughness is destroyed thus killing the creature correct?
Counters of any stripe stay on the object they are put on until the game object changes zones or something tells you remove the counters
And the amount of -1-1 counters that a creature receives is equal to the amount of damage it was hit with even if it was blocked from a creature with infect....? If a creature was strong enough to block and not die from a creature with infect does it still take the -1-1 counters? And how many?
The creature that was damaged by an infect creature will receive a number of -1/-1 counters equal to the power of the creature that damaged it if dealt combat damage or as speficied by the ability if it were shot by something like an infected prodigal pyromancer.
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The creature will have as many counters on it as it would have had damage. So if you block a 3/3 infect with a 4/4 then at the end of combat you're going to have a 4/4 with 3 -1/-1 counters on it making it effectively a 1/1
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I'm really not sure where your confusion is coming from, so I'll try and break it down.
I want you to forget the "-1/-1" part.
A "counter" is merely something that is marked on a card. That's all a counter is, something that keeps track of the number of a kind of mark on a card. A counter is use for, unsurprisingly, counting.
Let's take Everflowing Chalice for example. When you cast it and it comes onto the battlefield, it gets counters. It then references those counters for its ability.
Then there are creatures. If a Runeclaw bear receives a single -1/-1 counter, then it has a single -1/-1 counter on it. Whenever anything tries to reference the bear's power and toughness, it will see that it is a 1/1 because of the counter instead of a 2/2.
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Creatures who are dealt -1-1 counters by a creature with infect.....these counters stay on a creature past the turn they were dealt, adding up, until the toughness is destroyed thus killing the creature correct? And the amount of -1-1 counters that a creature receives is equal to the amount of damage it was hit with even if it was blocked from a creature with infect....? If a creature was strong enough to block and not die from a creature with infect does it still take the -1-1 counters? And how many?
Counters of any stripe stay on the object they are put on until the game object changes zones or something tells you remove the counters
The creature that was damaged by an infect creature will receive a number of -1/-1 counters equal to the power of the creature that damaged it if dealt combat damage or as speficied by the ability if it were shot by something like an infected prodigal pyromancer.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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edit: sarnth'd
I want you to forget the "-1/-1" part.
A "counter" is merely something that is marked on a card. That's all a counter is, something that keeps track of the number of a kind of mark on a card. A counter is use for, unsurprisingly, counting.
Let's take Everflowing Chalice for example. When you cast it and it comes onto the battlefield, it gets counters. It then references those counters for its ability.
Then there are creatures. If a Runeclaw bear receives a single -1/-1 counter, then it has a single -1/-1 counter on it. Whenever anything tries to reference the bear's power and toughness, it will see that it is a 1/1 because of the counter instead of a 2/2.