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Format: Commander

Commander: Ekthi, Contaminator Priest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This mono-white deck turns every Equipment card into an immediate, self-equipping creature threat using Ekthi, Contaminator Priest. Ekthi grants Living Weapon to all Equipment and gives other Phyrexians +1/+1, ensuring that even 0-toughness stat boosters keep their Germ tokens alive. The deck pairs this rapid token generation with dense card-draw engines that trigger on artifact casts or low-power creature entries, including Sram, Senior Edificer, Puresteel Paladin, and Welcoming Vampire. High-impact equipment such as Kaldra Compleat, Nettlecyst, and Swordsman's Steel scale power rapidly to close games through combat damage by Turn 7. While the deck boasts efficient creature removal and strong graveyard recovery through Open the Vaults, its reliance on combat damage and lack of countermagic leave it open to noncreature combo strategies and mass exile sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Batterbone
  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
  • 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Cid, Freeflier Pilot
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cloudsteel Kirin
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Envoy of the Ancestors
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flayer Husk
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Guardian of the Forgotten
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Hulkbuster Armor
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Kaldra Compleat
  • 1 Kemba's Banner
  • 1 Kíli the Resourceful
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long-Lost Lances
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Machinist's Arsenal
  • 1 Mandibular Kite
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Open the Vaults
  • 1 Paladin's Arms
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 36 Plains
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Scytheclaw
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Skateboard
  • 1 Skinwing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Stone Haven Outfitter
  • 1 Stoneforge Masterwork
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Swordsman's Steel
  • 1 The Everforger
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Vulpine Harvester
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Wrecking Ball Arm