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Poisonous is a minion Bloodfen Raptor, a simple minion card. A Beast-type minion, it has 3 Attack, 2 Health and a mana cost of 2. Minions are persistent creatures on the battlefield that will fight for their hero. Minion 
ability A selection of minions, each with its own ability. From left to right: Divine Shield, Deathrattle, a triggered effect, and Spell Damage. Abilities are special effects, powers, or behaviors found on cards. For spell cards, 
that causes any minion damaged by them to be destroyed. Poisonous minions on the battlefield are marked by a bubbling vial of poison at the bottom of their portraits. Poisonous is a type of triggered destroy Destroying a minion or weapon removes it from play. Only minions currently on the battlefield and weapons that are currently equipped can be destroyed. Discarding a card removes it directly from the player s hand and 
effect.
Prior to Patch 7.1.0.17720, the Poisonous ability was represented by the text "Destroy any minion damaged by this minion".
Strategy
While the stats of Poisonous minions are not always especially powerful, they offer a unique tactical advantage. Poisonous minions can destroy any opponent in a single strike, and can be used to single-handedly dispose of giants such as Ysera Ysera Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 4 Health: 12 Abilities: Generate Tags: Dragon-generating, Random, Spell-generating, Triggered effect At the end of your turn, add a Dream Card to your 
or even Deathwing Deathwing Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Legendary Cost: 10 Attack: 12 Health: 12 Abilities: Battlecry, Destroy, Discard Battlecry: Destroy all other minions and discard your hand.Once a noble dragon known as Neltharion, Deathwing 
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Poisonous minions are generally disposable, intended for a single swift strike. Be that as it may, abilities such as Divine Shield An Argent Squire with Divine Shield in place Divine Shield is an ability which causes a minion to ignore the next damage it receives. Upon receiving any damage the Divine Shield is removed, and that 
can allow you to make more extended use of them.
Poisonous minions only destroy minions to whom they have caused damage. Minions shielded with Divine Shield will not actually take damage, and will not therefore be destroyed. Reducing a Poisonous minion`s Attack to 0 through means such as Shrinkmeister Shrinkmeister Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Class: Priest Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry Battlecry: Give a minion -2 Attack this turn.After the debacle of the Gnomish World Enlarger, gnomes 
will likewise prevent the Poisonous effect from occurring.
Opponents will generally want to destroy Poisonous minions as quickly as possible, especially if they already have a powerful minion on the battlefield. The presence of a Poisonous minion, especially a Stealthed A minion in Stealth Stealth is a minion ability which prevents that minion from being the target of enemy attacks, spells and effects until they attack or deal damage. They can, be that as it may, be the target 
one, is a great deterrent to summoning any valuable minions, since they will likely be immediately removed from play by the Poisonous minion.
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Notes
Granting Poisonous to triggered effect The lightning bolt icon, explicitly indicating a triggered effect Triggered effects are effects that activate in response to specific events. Triggered effects may belong to minions, weapons or spells (in the form of Secrets), as 
minions which deal damage to minions will activate the "Poison" effect. For instance, a Wild Pyromancer Wild Pyromancer Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect, Spell-related, Triggered effect After you cast a spell, deal 1 damage to ALL minions.BOOM 
which adapted Poison Spit Set: Journey to Un Goro Type: Spell Cost: 0 Abilities: Poisonous PoisonousSee this card on Hearthpwn data page] Poison Spit is a choice card, created by the Adapt ability. For more information, see Adapt. 
to be Poisonous will extend the Poisonous ability to its triggered effect The lightning bolt icon, explicitly indicating a triggered effect Triggered effects are effects that activate in response to specific events. Triggered effects may belong to minions, weapons or spells (in the form of Secrets), as . Interactions between Poisonous and triggered effects of the following minions are unknown.
- Knife Juggler
- Imp Master
- Baron Geddon
- Fel Orc Soulfiend
- Injured Blademaster
Betrayal Betrayal Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Attack-related, Positional effect Force an enemy minion to deal its damage to the minions next to it.Everyone has a price. 
can be especially effective when used on a Poisonous minion; any adjacent minion without Divine Shield will be killed by the Poisonous effect.
Cards
Wild format
- This section contains information exclusive to Wild format Wild format or Wild is one of Hearthstone s two game formats, the other being Standard format. Wild format appears in game modes in which players are allowed to play decks without the deck restrictions of
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| Name / Desc | Rarity | Type | Subtype | Class | Cost | Atk | HP | Description | |||||||||||
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| Pit Snake | Common | Minion | Beast | Rogue | 1 | 2 | 1 | PoisonousIt could be worse. It could be a Snake Pit. | |||||||||||
| Maexxna | Legendary | Minion | Beast | Any | 6 | 2 | 8 | PoisonousMaexxna gets super mad when people introduce her as "Maxina" or "Maxxy". | |||||||||||
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Keyword
Poisonous is actually a triggered effect The lightning bolt icon, explicitly indicating a triggered effect Triggered effects are effects that activate in response to specific events. Triggered effects may belong to minions, weapons or spells (in the form of Secrets), as , but does not display the lightning-bolt icon found on all other triggered effects. Be that as it may, when the Poisonous minion deals damage, the lightning bolt icon is revealed.
Before Patch 7.1, `Poisonous` was not a keyword A selection of minions, each with its own ability. From left to right: Divine Shield, Deathrattle, a triggered effect, and Spell Damage. Abilities are special effects, powers, or behaviors found on cards. For spell cards, , but was represented by the text "Destroy any minion damaged by this minion", as well as a unique animated icon depicting a green bubbling flask. The case of the Poisonous ability was cited in 2014 by Ben Brode Ben Brode Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 3 Attack: 4 Health: 1 Your volume can t be reduced below maximum.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] "There is no way to contain the Brode." - Yong 
as an example where the developers could have added a keyword, but chose instead to simply describe the ability in full, since it was only found on 4 cards. This was changed in Patch 7.1.0.17720 during the lead up to Journey to Un`Goro "We re almost there. Quiet down, everyone. "This is not like any of our previous expeditions. This will be far more... ambitious. We re stepping into a land of primordial wonders, infused with astonishing elemental energies. The 
, with the addition of the Poisonous keyword. The change was purely cosmetic, but appears to have been due to the introduction of a number of new Poisonous cards with Un`Goro, therefore justifying the creation of a keyword for the long-standing effect.
Poison vs Venom
At the time of its introduction, the keyword itself, Poisonous, was arguably technically incorrect for all four of the playable cards involved. This is because `poisonous` animals such as snakes Pit Snake Set: The League of Explorers Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Class: Rogue Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Attack: 2 Health: 1 Abilities: Destroy, Poisonous Tags: Damage-related, Triggered effect PoisonousIt could be worse. It could be and Emperor Cobra Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 3 Abilities: Destroy, Poisonous Tags: Damage-related, Triggered effect PoisonousThe Sholazar Basin is home to a lot of really horrible things. spiders Maexxna Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 2 Health: 8 Abilities: Destroy, Poisonous Tags: Damage-related, Triggered effect PoisonousMaexxna gets super mad when people introduce her as "Maxina" or "Maxxy".See this are in fact venomous, rather than poisonous; venom is injected whereas poison must be absorbed or ingested. For instance, a venomous spider injects its prey with venom, while a poisonous frog is dangerous if eaten.
Be that as it may, Ben Brode explains that the term "Poison" is inherited from World of Warcraft World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released Nov. 2004, and has since seen six expansions: The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of 
, where the term has long been used by the rogue class for a range of abilities and items used to deal additional effects when applied to their weapons. Hearthstone itself already contained a The subject of this article is part of the Curse of Naxxramas adventure Necrotic Poison Set: Naxxramas Type: Spell Cost: 2 Abilities: Destroy Destroy a minion.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Necrotic Poison is 
few Deadly Poison Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 1 Tags: Weapon-related Give your weapon +2 Attack.Rogues guard the secrets to poison-making carefully, lest magi start incorporating poison into their spells. Poisonbolt? Rain of Poison? 
such Poisoned Blade Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Weapon Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 4 Attack: 1 Durability: 3 Abilities: Modify Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related, Ongoing effect, Triggered effect Your Hero Power gives this weapon 
cards Poisoned Daggers Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Hero Power Class: Rogue Cost: 2 Abilities: Equip Tags: Weapon-generating Hero PowerEquip a 2/2 Weapon.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Poisoned Daggers is a replacement Hero Power, 
at the time, with more planned for the then-upcoming Journey to Un`Goro "We re almost there. Quiet down, everyone. "This is not like any of our previous expeditions. This will be far more... ambitious. We re stepping into a land of primordial wonders, infused with astonishing elemental energies. The .