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As an added payoff, you draw a card whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player
Creature - Human Rogue Phyrexian Color tag templates(None) Ichorclaw Myr 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 becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn
As you can imagine, being forced to buy books to get one card did not sit well with everyone, resulting in the series stopping after 5 books and this particular methodology of implementing promotional cards wouldn't be used again
All of my friends began playing Magic that year, and as an awkward nerd with a bowl cut, it felt like a chance to connect and fit in