invitational card

[AIcOPed]

The winners card was one green mana sorcery with the text reading target player gains nine poison counters. He said he made it as a joke. What would be fair (read that as strong enough to see type one play, w/o being instantly restricted)? I would say four counters would be "fair" or wording to the effect of " if target player has less than 5 poison counters, that player gains 5 poison counters". The second version would prevent using it as a direct kill.

thanks for inputs.

[johnstown713]

Why is this being discussed because that card won't be made.  R&D already said they didn't want it and that he is working on a real card right now.  If they say it is a joke then put it in the card creation forum because I think it is bad.  Overall the card won't be made and is pretty bad.

Johnstown713