Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer B5 by StuTattoos

Format: Commander

Commander: Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 68

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive Mono-White Stax and Combo deck commanded by Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer. The primary strategy slows opposing fast combo and storm decks using powerful Rule of Law effects, creature lockouts, and mana taxes, including Archon of Emeria, Drannith Magistrate, Trinisphere, and Linvala, Keeper of Silence. Backed by format-ceiling fast mana such as Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, and Mana Vault, the deck establishes early board control while drawing substantial cards through The One Ring and Trouble in Pairs. It closes the game cleanly on Turn 4 with the infinite damage combo of Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista, shielded by Silence, Grand Abolisher, and Ranger-Captain of Eos. Anti-Venom provides graveyard recursion and a massive damage-absorbing body, while Phyrexian Vindicator paired with Guilty Conscience serves as a potent secondary infinite win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Rector
• 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
• 1 Archivist of Oghma
• 1 Archon of Emeria
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Aura of Silence
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Traitors
• 1 Codsworth, Handy Helper
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Commander's Plate
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Deafening Silence
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Disenchant
• 1 Drannith Magistrate
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Everybody Lives!
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
• 1 Giver of Runes
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grim Monolith
• 1 Guilty Conscience
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1 Idyllic Tutor
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Monumental Henge
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Orim's Chant
• 1 Pariah
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
• 19 Plains
• 1 Puresteel Paladin
• 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1 Rebuff the Wicked
• 1 Recruiter of the Guard
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rule of Law
• 1 Serra Ascendant
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Sigarda's Aid
• 1 Silence
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steelshaper's Gift
• 1 Stoneforge Mystic
• 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Trinisphere
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 War Room
• 1 Windswept Heath