Venom, Lethal Protector by NeonTrace

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck leverages Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector as a high-velocity engine that combines temporary creature theft, aggressive combat, and aristocrat drain. The primary game plan accelerates early mana through dense 1-2 CMC ramp, deploys Eddie Brock, and transforms him into Venom on Turn 4. Venom attacks immediately with innate haste, sacrificing either cheap utility creatures or stolen opposing threats to draw cards and cheat game-ending permanents like Sheoldred, Whispering One and Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers directly onto the battlefield. Backed by aristocrat payoffs like Mayhem Devil and Blood Artist, the deck turns stolen opposing creatures into fuel for lethal damage and card advantage while using goad effects like Kardur, Doomscourge to keep opposing pressure pointed elsewhere.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Act of Treason
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conquering Manticore
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fast Forward
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Grim Reaper's Sprint
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kari Zev's Expertise
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magmakin Artillerist
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Spider-Punk
  • 1 Strength of Will
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Take for a Ride
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vaan, Aspiring Sky Pirate
  • 1 Venom, Eddie Brock
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Wolverine, Fierce Fighter
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat