Toxic Phyrexian by user2263969

Format: Commander

Commander: Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan aggressive-midrange strategy centered on the toxic, infect, and corrupted mechanics led by Vishgraz, the Doomhive. The game plan focuses on delivering early poison counters using low-cost creatures like Skrelv, Defector Mite and Bilious Skulldweller to unlock powerful corrupted payoffs. On Turn 4, deploying Vishgraz establishes a wide board by generating three 1/1 Phyrexian Mite tokens while providing a commander that scales aggressively in power as opponents accumulate poison. The deck transitions into the midgame by compounding poison counters through steady proliferation from Evolution Sage, Contaminant Grafter, and Vraska, Betrayal's Sting. Heavy board-altering bombs such as Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Phyrexian Swarmlord, and Noxious Assault break parity in combat, while Aura Shards dismantles opposing engines. The deck consistently closes games around Turn 8 through wide unblockable attacks and cumulative poison proliferation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Annex Sentry
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminant Grafter
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Infection
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flensing Raptor
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Geth's Summons
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glissa's Retriever
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mite Overseer
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Necrogen Rotpriest
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nimraiser Paladin
  • 1 Nissa, Ascended Animist
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Noxious Assault
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pestilent Syphoner
  • 1 Phyresis Outbreak
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Atlas
  • 1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sheoldred's Headcleaver
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Slaughter Singer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Vat Emergence
  • 1 Venerated Rotpriest
  • 1 Venomous Brutalizer
  • 1 Viridian Corrupter
  • 1 Vishgraz, the Doomhive
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wurmquake