Venomoous by ElegantData5835

Format: Commander

Commander: Atraxa, Praetors' Voice

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Midrange Infect and Proliferate strategy commanded by Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. The primary game plan operates by distributing initial poison counters to all three opponents during early turns using low-cost creatures, evasive attackers, or direct non-combat spells like Prologue to Phyresis and Ichor Rats. Once all opponents have poison counters, the deck deploys Atraxa alongside secondary proliferation engines such as Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, Evolution Sage, and Flux Channeler. By proliferating every turn, the deck ticks poison counters from 1 to 10 across the entire table simultaneously, bypassing conventional 120-point life totals. A robust suite of premium interaction and protection spells, including Fierce Guardianship, Force of Will, Teferi's Protection, and Cyclonic Rift, shields the board while disrupting opposing win attempts. The deck achieves consistent Turn 4 assembly and threatens a lethal poison clock by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bloated Contaminator
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Confluence
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Distorted Curiosity
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Glistener Elf
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hand of the Praetors
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Infectious Bite
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necrogen Rotpriest
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyresis Outbreak
  • 1 Phyrexian Crusader
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scheming Aspirant
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome