Venser mk 2 by SquirrelJuice19

Format: Commander

Commander: Venser, Corpse Puppet

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Dimir midrange deck is led by Venser, Corpse Puppet and built around poison counters, toxic, and proliferate mechanics. The primary game plan applies early poison counters to every opponent using unblockable attackers like Blighted Agent, evasive fliers like Plague Stinger, or direct spells like Prologue to Phyresis and Ichor Rats. Once opponents are poisoned, the deck transitions into a control and attrition engine, leveraging repeatable proliferate sources such as Flux Channeler, Contagion Clasp, and Inexorable Tide to tick poison counters toward lethal thresholds. Venser, Corpse Puppet converts every proliferate action into board presence by creating 3/3 Hollow Sentinel artifact creature tokens and granting them flying and lifelink to stabilize life totals. Efficient black removal and blue counterspells protect the board and disrupt opposing strategies, while drain cards like Scheming Aspirant and Gray Merchant of Asphodel provide auxiliary life swings. The deck reliably eliminates the table with 10 poison counters by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Corrupted Resolve
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Distorted Curiosity
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dreadship Reef
  • 1 Dross Scorpion
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Gitaxian Anatomist
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Ichorclaw Myr
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Plague Stinger
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Aspirant
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Throne of Geth
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Venser, Corpse Puppet
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voidwing Hybrid
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Wipe Away
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat