Poison the Waters

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Character Background

Poison the Waters is a compact, flexible one-mana black sorcery that neatly supports tempo and disruption: the -1/-1 mode is a cheap mass removal that clears tokens, trades down small attackers, and lets your smaller creatures push through or finish off wounded creatures, while the discard mode is targeted hand hate that can strip an opponent of a combo piece, key creature, or artifact. Because it’s a sorcery you’ll most often use the shrink option on your turn to capitalize on favorable combat math or the discard option as a preemptive answer during your main phase. Deckbuilding tip: it shines in low-curve black tempo and aristocrat shells—slot it alongside sacrifice outlets (e.g., Viscera Seer) and value engines like Blood Artist to turn board whittles into card-advantage and life swings—or include it in control lists as a cheap complement to your hand-disruption package to neutralize artifacts and single-card combos.

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