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Phyrexian Swarmlord
Creature — Phyrexian Insect Horror
Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
At the beginning of your upkeep,create a 1/1 green Phyrexian Insect creature token with infect for each poison counter your opponents have.
Venum on
The Song of Phyresis
2 weeks ago
Glad to see you added Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, the oil-slick art is wonderful.
For the famous Sword, my problem always was that the creature has to do combat damage to the player, so most of the time, my opponent will just block it to not result in a poison counter on everyone.
Concerning my opinion on +1+1 in the Atraxa's deck. I feel like it is a nice addition, but shouldn't go around it, since you want to focus on poison.
However, if you do want to add +1+1. My opinion is to add Brokers Ascendancy. My reasoning is that ALL creature will get a +1+1 (possibly 2 with proliferate) instead of one creature getting +2+2 (+3+3 once you proliferate). The downside is that the counter comes in at your END-step. It also boost your ''little'' creatures with infect such as Myr's to become much bigger and a threat to your opponent. (Also works great if you want to include tokens in the deck such as White Sun's Twilight or Phyrexian Swarmlord )
Venum on
Poison Counters go Brrrrr
5 months ago
I really like Fynn because you have a lot of cheap options to make that deck really strong.
Viridian Longbow help you target a player without having to attack and then you can proliferate with Contagion Clasp afterward to pump the poison counter every turn.
Ohran Frostfang + Toski, Bearer of Secrets for extra draw
kill other creatures with some Fights mechanic such as Bite Down , Infectious Bite or Smell Fear
As for creature, i really like some Toxic that help your other creature and poison counter up Bloated Contaminator, Contaminant Grafter, Phyrexian Swarmlord and Venerated Rotpriest
Flarhoon13 on
Saskia keeps hitting
9 months ago
Fifth loss in a row with this deck was one where I could have won if I had seen the line. Instead, Saskia lost a very, very close one to Dave infecting me with a Phyrexian Swarmlord after a Putrefax put me to 5 poison counters. Saskia managed to kill The Ur-Dragon player, Harrison, who had won the previous game this evening with Kykar, Wind's Fury and an infinite Grapeshot. I put the wrong card under a Spinerock Knoll: Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* instead of an Utter End, which I could have used to remove a Phyrexian Swarmlord instead of dying to poison damage. Still, I could have won. I cast a Headliner Scarlett with two opponents. Either one had enough to kill me on the crack back. I cast a Tyranid Invasion pre-combat in order to get two 3/3 tokens, rather than one token post-combat. Either way, I didn't have enough blockers to survive. I drew with Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* and I'm not entirely sure what card it was but I died holding a game winning card in hand... Casting a Naya Charm to tap down David's board in his combat step instead of the Tyranid Invasion on my last turn would have let me survive and take out the remaining player. Taking out David instead of Jesse might have gotten me the win, too, since I had gained a ton of life via a turn 2 Serra Ascendant to possibly survive another massive Horde of Notions elemental army attack.
Headers13 on
Power and Poison
1 year ago
Optimator on
The start of my villain arc
1 year ago
Phyrexian Swarmlord seems really good with your commander. Might be a mandatory inclusion!
Dolmen Gate or Levitation might be good for all the attacking you'll be doing. Depends on how aggro the deck ends up though. A decent amount of your attackers have evasion already. Champion of Lambholt was a brilliant inclusion.
Maybe Steelbane Hydra for removal? SHould be good with your proliferate strategy
Mortlocke on
The Song of Phyresis
1 year ago
Always a pleasure to have new visitors to the page, welcome. Magic has gone through multiple changes in the past couple of years with everything getting multiple art treatments, power creep, and a whole host of different products that seem to lose more and more relevance with each new iteration. But I digress, I love the Toxic mechanic. Sure it doesn't quite have the explosive potential of Infect, but it can still put in work with it's sibling mechanic Corrupted.
As for your questions about certain notable exclusions from the deck:
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Inexorable Tide - This was once in the deck, but had to be cut simply due to a lack of space. 5 mana with 2 blue pips is a steep ask for a card that does literally nothing on cast. The usefulness of this card is entirely contingent on how large of a hand I have, and how many counters I have in play to target for proliferation. If none of my opponents have poison counters, and none of my creatures have +1/+1 counters on them...then what's the point? That's the unfortunate position this card holds in that it requires a steep investment for little pay off more often than not.
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Phyrexian Swarmlord - Much like the previously mentioned, Swardlord requires a great deal of set up to be relevant that amounts to nothing more than a win-more card. If there aren't a plentiful amount of poison counters already on my opponents then this card is simply a 4/4 for 6 - not a worthwhile investment of mana.
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Evolution Sage - This too was once in the deck until more relevant creatures came and replaced it. I'm not trying to be rude or anything but there was a big retcon that created the Phyrexian tribe. Every creature in the deck is a Phyrexian as a result of said retcon and therefore benefit from cards like Urza's Incubator and Cavern of Souls. Tribal issues aside, Evolution Sage is only as good as the number of land drops I have per turn which at most is only 2. to make this card a worthwhile inclusion I'd have to carve out more space for additional land drops in the form of Burgeoning and Exploration which is more trouble than it's worth. This card would be better suited for a different deck.
The deck is for both a 1v1 and Group setting - the hardest part is overcoming the politics and stigma of playing Poison counters. It's one of my favorite mechanics regardless, and always enjoy my games - archenemy status and all. Thanks for coming by and checking out the deck. Thanks for the +1 and the nice words, good luck with your own build and let me know if you have any questions.
Azoth2099 on
Green/Black toxic/proliferate need recommendations
2 years ago
Blightsteel Colossus, Spinebiter & Phyrexian Swarmlord don't really do much for the mana investment imo. Runic Armasaur on the other hand could potentially draw you a bunch of cards per game!
Also, is there a particular reason you haven't included Flux Channeler? It's a work horse of a card in this deck imo.
Balvron on
Green/Black toxic/proliferate need recommendations
2 years ago
Azoth2099 what do you think of Blightsteel Colossus Spinebiter Phyrexian Swarmlord Runic Armasaur as adds to the deck?
also regarding creatures to keep: Blightbelly Rat Blightwidow Bloated Contaminator Branchblight Stalker Cankerbloom Fynn, the Fangbearer God-Eternal Rhonas Hand of the Praetors Hooded Blightfang Ichor Rats Ichorspit Basilisk Necrogen Rotpriest Pestilent Syphoner Phyrexian Hydra Poison-Tip Archer Scheming Aspirant Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Thalia and The Gitrog Monster Toxic Nim Tyrranax Atrocity Tyrranax Rex Venomous Brutalizer Verdant Sun's Avatar Whispering Specter Evolution Sage Norn's Choirmaster Raven Guild Master Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
cutting Bortuk Bonerattle; Copper Longlegs; Deathmist Raptor; Ezzaroot Channeler; Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma; Ravenous Sailback; Shifting Ceratops; Topiary Stomper; Tranquil Frillback; Faceless Devourer; Mage Hunter; Spiteful Returned; Suq'Ata Assassin. probably could do with a few more creature cuts, especially if I want to throw some of the planeswalkers I found for the maybe board in there.
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