VENOM by user6715694

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Jund Stompy deck is built around the transformative commander Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector. The front side provides a small reanimation effect for 1-drops, but the real engine is the back side: a 5/5 with menace, trample, and haste that draws X cards and puts a permanent with mana value X or less onto the battlefield whenever it attacks after sacrificing another creature. The deck leverages a dense package of extra combat spells-six total-to chain Venom's attack triggers in a single turn, converting sacrificed creatures into massive card advantage and free permanents. The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage from a board of large threats (Old Gnawbone, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient) deployed through Venom's trigger, Sneak Attack, Monster Manual, and reanimation effects. Secondary paths include draining via Ayara, Widow of the Realm or using The Reaper, King No More to steal opposing creatures. The deck is a classic value-stompy plan, accelerating through mana dorks and cost reducers before exploding in a single combat-heavy turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avatar of Growth
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Delina, Wild Mage
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 God-Eternal Rhonas
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grim Reaper's Sprint
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Overpowering Attack
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shadow in the Warp
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World at War
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground