Venser, Corpse Puppet

• WOTC Official Reminder Textofficial rules
  Lifelink — Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.

• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Players can respond to a spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it's too late for anyone to respond.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Toxic doesn't change the amount of combat damage a creature deals. For example, if a 2/2 creature with toxic 1 deals combat damage to a player, that creature will deal 2 damage. The results of that damage are the player loses 2 life and gets a poison counter.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  An ability that triggers "Whenever you proliferate" triggers even if you chose no permanents or players while doing so.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  If a player or permanent has more than one kind of counter on it, and you choose for it to get additional counters, it must get one of each kind of counter it already has. You can't have it get just one kind of counter it already has and not the others.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  To proliferate, you can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can choose any player who has a counter, including opponents. You can't choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Multiple instances of toxic are cumulative. For example, if a creature has toxic 2 and gains toxic 1 due to another effect, combat damage that creature deals to a player will cause that player to get 3 poison counters.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Damage dealt by a creature with toxic grants the same number of counters regardless of how much damage is dealt. Notably, if a replacement effect modifies the damage in some way (such as that of Gratuitous Violence), the number of counters given remains unchanged.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  You don't have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since "any number" includes zero, you don't have to choose any permanents at all, and you don't have to choose any players at all.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Any other effects of that damage, such as life gain from lifelink, still apply.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  Conversely, replacement effects that apply to the number of counters put on a player can modify the counters placed this way. For example, Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider's last two abilities can apply to counters placed this way.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game. This is a state-based action and doesn't use the stack. In other words, it happens immediately and players can't respond to it, just like a player losing the game due to having 0 or less life.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  If a creature with toxic deals combat damage to a creature or planeswalker, or if it deals noncombat damage, toxic has no effect and no player gets poison counters.
• WWizards of the Coast2023-02-04
  Official Ruling
  If a permanent ever has both +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time, they're removed in pairs as a state-based action so that the permanent has only one of those kinds of counters on it.

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