Snakes

Format: Commander

Commander: Aphelia, Viper Whisperer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Aphelia, Viper Whisperer commands a Golgari Snake and Gorgon kindred deck centered around deathtouch synergies and sudden life-halving bursts. The early game establishes cheap deathtouch creatures and generates Snake tokens through Aphelia's attack trigger. Midgame pieces like Hooded Blightfang and The Serpent Society punish blocking and drain opponents. The primary win condition combines Aphelia's five-mana activated ability with combat damage to rapidly collapse opponent life totals, achieving instant knockouts alongside Wound Reflection. Alternatively, wide deathtouch attacks backed by Nature's Will and Garruk's Uprising overrun defenses to secure victory through sustained combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adventurer's Inn
• 1 Animal Sanctuary
• 1 Ankle Biter
• 1 Annihilating Glare
• 1 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Aspect of Hydra
• 1 Bamboo Grove Archer
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Case of the Gorgon's Kiss
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Charcoal Diamond
• 1 Coat with Venom
• 1 Coiling Rebirth
• 1 Coiling Stalker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contract Killing
• 1 Costly Plunder
• 1 Court of Locthwain
• 1 Crippling Fear
• 1 Cruel Truths
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Dread Linnorm // Scale Deflection
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Erebos's Emissary
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fade into Antiquity
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Festering Thicket
• 8 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gift of the Viper
• 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gorgon Flail
• 1 Gorgon Recluse
• 1 Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair
• 1 Hagra Constrictor
• 1 Haunted One
• 1 Heir of the Ancient Fang
• 1 Hidden Necropolis
• 1 Historian's Wisdom
• 1 Hooded Blightfang
• 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1 Jade-Cast Sentinel
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Killing Glare
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Market Festival
• 1 Mold Adder
• 1 Moss Diamond
• 1 Murder
• 1 Nature's Will
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nocturnal Hunger
• 1 Pharika's Chosen
• 1 Riveteers Overlook
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scion of Halaster
• 1 Scourge of the Undercity
• 1 Serpent Assassin
• 1 Serpent Specialist
• 1 Shed Weakness
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sudden Reclamation
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 The Serpent Society
• 1 They Went This Way
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Toxin Analysis
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Ukud Cobra
• 1 Undercity Eliminator
• 1 Vanquisher's Banner
• 1 Venomous Hierophant
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Vraska Joins Up
• 1 Vraska's Finisher
• 1 Vraska, the Silencer
• 1 Witch's Cauldron
• 1 Wound Reflection