Venom by user2604621

Format: Commander

Commander: Venom, Deadly Devourer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Venom, Deadly Devourer commands a Golgari Voltron strategy focused on converting high-toughness graveyard fuel into massive commander damage. The game plan revolves around binning enormous creatures like The Walls of Ba Sing Se, Ancient Adamantoise, and Death's Shadow using specialized tutors such as Entomb and Buried Alive. Venom then consumes these cards from the graveyard to gain +1/+1 counters equal to their toughness, quickly growing past lethal commander damage thresholds. Counter multipliers like Branching Evolution accelerate this growth, while evasion enablers and burst spells like Essence Harvest or Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord convert that colossal power into swift table eliminations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agonasaur Rex
  • 1 Alien Symbiosis
  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canopy Cover
  • 1 Collective Brutality
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Death's Shadow
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Harvest
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overprotect
  • 1 Putrid Imp
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unhallowed Phalanx
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Venom, Deadly Devourer
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Void Beckoner
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery