Hydra Omnivore + Tainted Strike

Hydra Omnivore

Tainted Strike

How it works

1. Cast Tainted Strike by paying , giving Hydra Omnivore +1/+0 and infect until end of turn.
2. Deal combat damage to an opponent using Hydra Omnivore, causing them to get at least nine poison counters.
3. The opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
4. Hydra Omnivore triggers, causing each other opponent to get at least nine poison counters.
5. Each remaining opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.

By casting Tainted Strike on Hydra Omnivore, you completely transform the math of a multiplayer game by leveraging its infect grant alongside a power boost. When Hydra Omnivore subsequently crashes into your first opponent and deals combat damage, that player is overwhelmed by poison counters instead of standard life loss. Crucially, the creature's native combat-damage trigger fires off that exact same massive damage total to each *other* opponent simultaneously. Because infect translates that damage directly into poison counters, the entire table is instantly knocked out in a single devastating strike.