Apex of Infect (One-Hit Kills)

Commander / EDH Infect RBW (Mardu) Voltron

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Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Teetering Peaks
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dust Corona
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Offspring's Revenge

Creature (25)

• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Flensermite
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Ichorclaw Myr
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Lost Leonin
• 1x Necropede
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Regal Leosaur
• 1x Skinbrand Goblin
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Bastion Protector
• 1x Phyrexian Digester
• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x Cubwarden
• 1x Filth
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Vulpikeet
• 1x Cloudpiercer
• 1x Mindleecher
• 1x Sun Titan

Artifact (12)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Ride Down
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fire Covenant

Sorcery (10)

• 1x By Force
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax
• 1x Chandra's Ignition

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A copy of this deck with a budgeted manabase (and my preferred budget options for $180 cards ) can be found here:

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Apex of Infect (Budget-ish)

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Mutate is amazing! You usually don't suffer from summoning sickness since you mutate an existing creature. Snapdax is essentially Fireshrieker in your command zone, except it ALSO can change your creatures' power and toughness to 3/5 if you choose.

How to Win

The goal is simple: play creatures with infect ASAP, mutate them into Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt , and swing for the kill.

Snapdax + infect alone can knock out any opponent in two hits, but there are several ways to expedite the process further.

At 3 power, a normal attack will usually give a player 6 poison counters. All you need to do is give Snapdax a +2 boost.

I used to run Sanctuary Blade for it's diversity, and because all we really wanted was the +2 strength and evasion. But the protection it granted ended up getting in the way more than it helped. Instead I think I have found the perfect substitute, a card that is PERFECT for Snapdax.

Dust Corona .

This card can lead to some extremely early kills.

• Turn one, play a plains, Sol Ring and any signet / Fellwar Stone .
• Turn two, play a swamp or a mountain, Plague Stinger , and enchant it with Dust Corona .
• Turn three, mutate Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt onto the Plague Stinger. You have a 5/5 legendary dinosaur cat nightmare with double strike, infect, can remove any target creature with toughness 4 or less, and cannot be blocked expect by creatures with reach.

There may be a quicker way to victory. This is just one example. This deck is loads of fun and has seen great success.

If you would like to run any of the swords, they all work fine. Just be wary of giving a host creature protection from white, black, or red.

Bastion Protector gives us the exact boost we need as well as grant invulnerability.

Mindleecher is an alternate commander as it is essentially an equipment that turns any 1/1 infect into a 5/5 flying Nightmare . . . with infect. Oh, and it exiles our opponents cards from their library. Good for stealing some lands?

Teetering Peaks is probably the best card in the deck, as you can drop it the turn you mutate Snapdax for a surprise K.O.

Slayers' Stronghold is similar but it's repeatable at the cost of requiring an activation.

Ramp

I am interested in Cartographer's Hawk not only for the potential ramp in white, but also for the extra card in-hand that it provides. I am a fan of looting effects , so having a card like Cartographer's Hawk in hand is useful discard fodder.

The rest of your ramp are your standard mana rocks and Smothering Tithe .

Card Draw

Since we have access to red and black we are able to sift through our deck pretty nicely at the cost of life or a few cards from our hand . But this shouldn't prove much of an issue for us, as Snapdax gives us at least 4 life every time they mutate (more if the creature they mutate with has lifelink), and there are multiple situations where we want our creatures in the graveyard.

I considered Xantcha, Sleeper Agent because we can mutate her while it is under our opponent's control.

And that is funny.

I like funny.

But I also like being in control and I'm not in control if my opponents are in control.

Recursion

Offspring's Revenge was made for this deck, as it can put any black, red, or white infect creature back onto the battlefield from the graveyard as a 1/1. Since mutate changes the power and toughness of creatures, there is no downside to this enchantment.

Sun Titan works well to grab any number of our cheap infect creatures, or even grab Phyresis to add infect to another creature. Sun Titan really works well with this deck, and if nothing else is a good target for Offspring's Revenge or any of our other mutation creatures.

Chainer, Nightmare Adept was chosen for his ability to let us cast creatures from graveyards, rather than bringing them to the battlefield. Since half of the creatures in this deck want to be cast for their mutate cost, I can't see myself replacing Chainer.

Soul of Innistrad was chosen for much the same reason as Chainer. We want to mutate our creatures when possible, so having them come to our hand is valuable. My playgroup love to play milling strategies, and since we are running a bunch of looting effects ourselves, being able to activate its ability from the graveyard is the primary reason for running it.

Support

I have considered cards like Outmaneuver , Prowler's Helm , and Trailblazer's Boots , but I swapped them out for the cards I listed above for what I think is efficiency. Couldn't figure out what cards I'd want to swap so out they go for now. Tips appreciated.

Top Ranked	Achieved #60 position overall 3 years ago Achieved #40 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Infect 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RBW (Mardu) 3 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.42
Tokens	Cat 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Copy Clone, Treasure
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