• Type: Status
• Cost: Unplayable
• Keywords: None
• Effect: Unplayable. At the end of your turn, if this is in your hand, take 3 damage.

Danger: B Rank

A Status that deals 3 damage at end of turn if it's in your hand. One point higher than Burn (2 damage), which makes stacked copies noticeably more painful. Like Burn, it combines hand-clogging with damage. Infection-applying enemies tend to stack multiple copies in sequence, so a deck flooded with Infection takes escalating damage fast. Medical Kit Exhausts, or Evolve converts it into draw - both are effective.

• Added to your deck by infection- and plague-themed monsters built around disease and toxins
• Some enemies apply several copies in a single attack, rapidly contaminating your deck
• Status cards exist only during combat and are removed automatically after combat ends

• Medical Kit: play the Status to Exhaust it. The best way to purge Infection from the deck
• Empty your hand: playing everything avoids the damage. Low-cost builds handle this easily
• Quick finish: end the fight before Infection piles up
• Evolve (Ironclad): extra draw on Infection. You still take the damage, but draw compensates for the lost slot

• Medical Kit: play Infection to Exhaust it. The most effective counter
• Evolve (Ironclad): extra draw on Status draw, converting Infection's downside into draw
• Fire Breathing (Ironclad): damage on Status draw, turning Infection into offense
• Feel No Pain (Ironclad): Block when Medical Kit Exhausts Infection