living weapons by user3661406

Format: Commander

Commander: Ekthi, Contaminator Priest

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-white Phyrexian Equipment-tokens list built around Ekthi, Contaminator Priest. Ekthi gives every Equipment living weapon and anthems other Phyrexians, so each Sword, Coat, or Cyst immediately becomes a Germ that enters as a real body. The 99 backs that plan with twenty-two Equipment, cost reducers, and a Phyrexian supporting cast that incubates, makes toxic Mites, and lords the swarm. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins by going wide, suiting up a few haymakers such as Kaldra Compleat, Batterskull, and Nettlecyst, and occasionally leaking poison. Ekthi, Contaminator Priest is the card that turns non-living-weapon Equipment into creatures, but the list still has a real creature suite, five printed living weapons, and independent token makers, so it can keep attacking if he is removed. Recasting him through commander tax is the main tempo ask, not a hard stop.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abolish
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Atraxa's Skitterfang
• 1 Batterskull
• 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
• 1 Blackblade Reforged
• 1 Bladed Ambassador
• 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Commander's Plate
• 1 Conqueror's Flail
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Darksteel Forge
• 1 Disenchant
• 1 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest
• 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Essence of Orthodoxy
• 1 Forge Anew
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Hammer of Nazahn
• 1 Infested Fleshcutter
• 1 Intangible Virtue
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Kaldra Compleat
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mandibular Kite
• 1 Mantle of the Ancients
• 1 Mask of Memory
• 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
• 1 Mishra's Workshop
• 1 Mite Overseer
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1 Morgul-Knife
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Nettlecyst
• 1 Norn's Inquisitor
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Open the Vaults
• 1 Paradise Mantle
• 1 Pearl Medallion
• 1 Phyrexian Awakening
• 1 Phyrexian Pegasus
• 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
• 26 Plains
• 1 Rebuff the Wicked
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
• 1 Sigarda's Aid
• 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steelshaper's Gift
• 1 Suture Priest
• 1 Sword of Once and Future
• 1 Sword of Wealth and Power
• 1 Sword of the Animist
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 The Hexcore
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Vulpine Harvester
• 1 War Room
• 1 White Sun's Twilight