I'm sorry but poison counters are just silly

[capablecow]

I'm a returning MTG player. I used to play with my friends probably 12-13 years ago. Long story short I ended up losing all my cards and never buying new ones.

I've been having fun playing arena so far. I'm a simple man, I like angel decks so I make them. I have gotten to silver one with my white/red angel deck. I have seen some silly things like the rabbit token creature combo or somebody spamming me for 30 damage in one turn by discarding a card and putting it back in play. Even though those seemed Kind of cheesy I figure there is a good counter for it. I just haven't figured it out yet.

But the poison counter stuff is complete BS. You only need 10 of them to win the game? When a single enchantment that costs 2 mana gives you 2 counters just by casting it? I feel it's dumb to allow someone to win the game with something other then losing all your life. It doesn't even require a setup that is semi difficult to setup.

1 mana for a 1/1 with death-touch and toxic plus another 2 mana to make it give 2 counters with an enchantment and then your instants just hand them out as well? It's almost like you need to make rush decks just to stand a chance.

In conclusion this is the only thing I've found unfair and a bit silly. I wish they would change it.

[nul]

Poison decks are relatively mid. But assuming since you said you play angels, I'm going to assume your deck mostly functions on lifegain.

Like with most archetypes, they usually have bad matchups. Poison is your bad matchup.
It's balanced by the fact that poison has like, several other bad matchups. It's actually pretty difficult to win with one unless you're up against a lifegain deck.

[anaris]

poison is:
slow
mechanically costly on cards
older than your career in this game
not the first alternative way to win the game
fragile

[lockwoodx]

Toxin is a one trick pony. Easy to spot a legit toxin deck and even easier to concede and deny them a match for playing something dumb.