Cleanse by Bock-16

Format: Commander

Commander: Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-white voltron/reanimator deck helmed by Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer. The core strategy uses damage-redirection enchantments and artifacts (Pariah, Saving Grace, Pariah's Shield) to funnel all damage onto Anti-Venom, turning him into an enormous counter-stacked threat while blanking opponent attacks. The commander also provides a one-shot reanimation on ETB, recurring key value pieces like Sun Titan or Stuffy Doll. The primary win condition is commander damage delivered via equipment like Inquisitor's Flail, Genji Glove, or the finisher Super State, which turns one combat step into a board-wide burn. Secondary paths include the Stuffy Doll + damage-redirection combo to kill a player each turn, and the inevitability of Avacyn, Angel of Hope providing an indestructible board. The deck is resilient but slow, relying on its dense disruption and recursion to outlast opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arch of Orazca
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Avenging Huntbonder
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Crystal Dragon // Rob the Hoard
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entangler
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Gryff's Boon
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Hidden Courtyard
  • 1 Hot Soup
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inquisitor's Flail
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Karoo
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Martyrdom
  • 1 Masako the Humorless
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mistveil Plains
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nemesis Mask
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 17 Plains
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Resurrection Orb
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saving Grace
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 With Great Power . . .