Anti-venom by user1849309

Format: Commander

Commander: Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-white Voltron and combo strategy commanded by Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer. Anti-Venom features a unique defensive replacement effect that prevents all incoming damage and converts it directly into +1/+1 counters, while also reanimating a creature from the graveyard when cast. The primary game plan weaponizes this ability using damage-redirection effects such as Pariah, With Great Power . . ., and Pariah's Shield, alongside forced-blocking tools like Nemesis Mask and Inquisitor's Flail. Opponents cannot harm your life total through damage, while any combat or board damage exponentially pumps Anti-Venom into a massive lethal threat. The deck complements this core engine with premier white tutors to find necessary Auras and Equipment, an extensive 15-card protection suite that grants hexproof and indestructibility, and robust backup win conditions including Heliod, Sun-Crowned paired with Walking Ballista and Guilty Conscience loops on Phyrexian Vindicator.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Codsworth, Handy Helper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entangler
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Guilty Conscience
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inquisitor's Flail
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mass Calcify
  • 1 Mistveil Plains
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Nemesis Mask
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 23 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Repentance
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Spider-Man
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 With Great Power . . .