Venom bracket 3 by TheGreatDak

Format: Commander

Creator: TheGreatDak

Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck leverages Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector as a scalable value engine and sneak-attack outlet from the command zone. Early turns focus on accelerating mana via one-drop dorks and land ramp to establish early board presence. Once six mana is reached, Eddie transforms into Venom, gaining haste and attacking immediately to sacrifice a low-cost creature, refill the hand, and drop an enormous permanent onto the battlefield without paying its mana cost. The deck supplements this commander-centric line with a robust Jund reanimation suite featuring Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Living Death, allowing high-impact threats like Archon of Cruelty, Vaultborn Tyrant, and Etali, Primal Conqueror to enter play well ahead of schedule. While susceptible to well-timed creature removal during the transform turn, the deck's extensive redundancy and powerful enter-the-battlefield triggers allow it to overpower tables quickly, closing games out with devastating combat swings from Craterhoof Behemoth or repeated direct damage from Terror of the Peaks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Behold the Sinister Six!
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hammerhead, Maggia Boss
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riveteers Ascendancy
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Punk
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Venom, Eddie Brock
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground