Arti-Corpse

Format: Commander

Commander: Venser, Corpse Puppet

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

Venser, Corpse Puppet rewards proliferating by creating The Hollow Sentinel or improving an artifact creature. The deck therefore develops through cheap proliferate spells, artifact creatures, Constructs, and cost reducers such as Etherium Sculptor and Artificer Class. Its strongest payoffs are Lux Artillery, Cyberdrive Awakener, Kappa Cannoneer, and The Cyber-Controller. In practice, the commander-plus-proliferate engine is usable around turn 5, but it is not yet a winning threat. The deck needs several more artifacts, counters, or token makers before an opponent must answer the board. It has respectable spot removal and counterspells, but those answers compete with a mana-intensive development plan. The major weakness is the absence of a compact, deterministic finish: the artifact swarm can become threatening, yet it does not reliably kill three opponents in one turn or create a total lockout. This is a normal casual-to-mid-power Commander strategy, not a competitive combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artificer Class
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Copy Artifact
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptothrall
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyberman Patrol
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Mage-Ring Network
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saprazzan Skerry
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Skorpekh Lord
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Steady Progress
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Synth Infiltrator
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Venser, Corpse Puppet
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whisper of the Dross