Kytheon, Hero of Akros / Gideon, Battle-Forged Kytheon, Hero of Akros is usually a good soldier card you pop into the 99 for the following commanders, but Gideon planeswalker typal is really a deck
The card allows you to deal damage to any target, and then amass Orcs 1 whenever your opponent draws a card other than during their draw phase and when it hits the field
Good luck.
On paper this looks great even in a singleton format as tokens are common place and Cloning can be a thing
2: Create a 2/2 white Cat Soldier creature token named Ajani's Pridemate with "Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this token." 0: If you have at least 15 life more than your starting life total, exile Ajani and each artifact and creature your opponents control
So poison gives one counter, generally speaking, irrelevant of damage