Septic Rats

one generic mana one black mana Creature — Phyrexian RatPower and toughness2/2

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)

Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player is poisoned, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

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Septic Rats rulings

2011-06-01
A player is poisoned if that player has one or more poison counters.
2011-06-01
Septic Rats gets a maximum of +1/+1 from its ability, no matter how many poison counters the defending player has.

Septic Rats keyword rules

Infect Rule 702.90

Infect is a static ability.

Damage dealt to a player by a source with infect doesn’t cause that player to lose life. Rather, it causes that source’s controller to give the player that many poison counters. See rule .

Damage dealt to a creature by a source with infect isn’t marked on that creature. Rather, it causes that source’s controller to put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature. See rule .

If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had infect.

The infect rules function no matter what zone an object with infect deals damage from.

Multiple instances of infect on the same object are redundant.