Venom

An ability that is similar to deathtouch in many older cards is Venom (or Basilisk), named after the card Venom.

Description

The latest rule from Oracle:

• whenever (this creature) blocks or becomes blocked by (opposing creature), destroy (that creature) (at the end of combat)
• whenever (this creature) deals (combat) damage to a creature, destroy (that creature) (at the end of combat)

Venom applies only on combat damage, while deathtouch applies to any damage dealt to a creature. Some creatures with venom only destroy certain colors or types of opposing creatures.

Cards that are related to Venom

Creatures

White

• Alaborn Zealot
• Loyal Sentry

Black

• Abomination (green or white creature)
• Cruel Deceiver
• Deathgazer (nonblack creature)
• Dinosaur Hunter (Dinosaur)
• Dread Specter (nonblack creature)
• Dripping Dead
• Evil Eye of Urborg
• Gorgon Recluse (nonblack creature)
• Grotesque Hybrid
• Infernal Medusa
• Mephitic Ooze
• Phage the Untouchable
• Phyrexian Reaper (green creature)
• Phyrexian Slayer (white creature)
• Plague Fiend
• Stinkweed Imp
• Toxin Sliver
• Zombie Boa (creature of selected color)

Green

• Cockatrice (non-Wall creature)
• Engulfing Slagwurm
• Lowland Basilisk
• Ohran Viper
• Serpentine Basilisk
• Simic Basilisk
• Sosuke, Son of Seshiro
• Stone-Cold Basilisk
• Stone-Tongue Basilisk
• Sylvan Basilisk
• Tangle Asp
• Thicket Basilisk (non-Wall creature)
• Venomous Dragonfly

Multicolor

• Kjeldoran Frostbeast
• Rock Basilisk (non-Wall creature)
• Voracious Cobra
• Vraska the Unseen

Spells

White

• Infinite Authority (creature with toughness 3 or less)

Green

• Venom (non-Wall creature)
• Venomous Fangs

Artifacts

• Acidic Dagger (non-Wall creature)
• Creepy Doll
• Dead-Iron Sledge (Destroys both equipped creature and creatures blocked or blocked by equipped creature.)
• Mirror Shield
• Wooden Stake (Vampire)