Normally a creatures controller determines where its damage goes, but any time a creature with banding is involved, that creatures controller chooses where it goes (702.21j and .21k)
Gallery and List of Poison Cards In addition to cards that have infect or toxic, these are cards that can put poison counters on a player: Crypt Cobra Sabertooth Cobra Suq'Ata Assassin Pit Scorpion Marsh Viper Swamp Mosquito Serpent Generator Hand of the Praetors Ichor Rats Relic Putrescence Virulent Wound Pistus Strike Decimator Web Caress of Phyrexia Reaper of Sheoldred Fynn, the Fangbearer Ajani, Sleeper Agent Norn's Decree Phyresis Outbreak Prologue to Phyresis Infectious Inquiry Vraska, Betrayal's Sting Vraska's Fall Infectious Bite Etali, Primal Conqueror Etali, Primal Sickness Persuasive Interrogators Bloodroot Apothecary Virulent Silencer There are other cards like Corrupted Resolve and Mycosynth Fiend that mention poison counters but don't actually distribute them
Then you use your Reanimate on this costing you a mere five life and affording you an extra body to go with your fatty
This one works slightly differently
Few decks appreciated this protective ability as much as Merfolk, where every turn with every lord matters so, so much
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