Toxic Communion by Berserker93

Format: Commander

Commander: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Atraxa, Praetors' Voice deck is a dedicated poison-based midrange strategy that leverages toxic, infect, and proliferate mechanics. The primary game plan seeks to distribute initial poison counters to all opponents during turns 1 through 3 using cheap evasive creatures like Blighted Agent or universal spells like Prologue to Phyresis and Ichor Rats. On turn 4, casting Atraxa establishes a recurring end-step proliferate engine. As the game transitions into turns 5 and 6, secondary proliferate engines like Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, Evolution Sage, and Inexorable Tide amplify counter distribution. This creates a decisive table clock that finishes opponents simultaneously on turn 8 through state-based loss at 10 poison counters. Because poison counters cannot be removed, the deck maintains strong late-game inevitability. However, the lack of nonland tutors and fast mana makes setup reliant on natural draws and vulnerable to well-timed board wipes that strip its proliferation engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atomize
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bloated Contaminator
  • 1 Bloodroot Apothecary
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Contaminant Grafter
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Corrupted Resolve
  • 1 Distorted Curiosity
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Geth's Summons
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Infectious Bite
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrogen Communion
  • 1 Necrogen Rotpriest
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 1 Pestilent Syphoner
  • 1 Phyresis Outbreak
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Swarmlord
  • 1 Plague Stinger
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thirsting Roots
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Venerated Rotpriest
  • 1 Viridian Corrupter
  • 1 Vishgraz, the Doomhive
  • 1 Voidwing Hybrid
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Zagoth Triome