19 Inches of Venom by therealdhs

Format: Commander

Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Jund Reanimator and creature combo engine designed to cheat game-ending permanents into play and execute instant-speed infinite damage loops. Helmed by Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector, the commander serves as early low-cost recursion on its front face and an explosive card-draw and permanent-cheating engine once transformed into Venom. The deck utilizes dense 1–2 CMC acceleration and premium tutors to deposit heavy threats like Protean Hulk, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, and Worldgorger Dragon into the graveyard before reviving them with spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize. Once assembled, the deck closes the game instantly via the infinite ping loop of Mikaeus and Triskelion or Worldgorger loops with Terror of the Peaks. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and lacking heavy stack interaction, the deck's high functional redundancy and swift recovery make it resilient and lethal by Turn 4.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Invigorator
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rushed Rebirth
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground