Lethal Protector by jgmanuel

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Jund stompy deck focused on cheating massive creatures into play through graveyard reanimation and hand-drop engines. Led by Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector, the deck accelerates mana on Turns 1 and 2 to deploy cheat enablers like Sneak Attack, Natural Order, Victimize, or a transformed Venom by Turn 4. Once operational, it deploys high-impact behemoths such as Archon of Cruelty, Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness, Terror of the Peaks, and Vaultborn Tyrant. These creatures provide overwhelming enter-the-battlefield triggers, card draw, and board control. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by attacking with massive trample threats and utilizing extra combats from Aggravated Assault and Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient. Supported by versatile removal and resilient recovery lines, the deck remains dangerous even if opponents answer its initial wave of monsters.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery