Hapatra's Infectious Combo (Budget Under $100)

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Budget Casual Combo Competitive Infect

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Creature (29)

• 1x Archetype of Finality
• 1x Blackcleave Goblin
• 1x Blight Mamba
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Contagious Nim
• 1x Core Prowler
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Flesh-Eater Imp
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Gladehart Cavalry
• 1x Hand of the Praetors
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Ichorclaw Myr
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Phyrexian Hydra
• 1x Phyrexian Juggernaut
• 1x Phyrexian Swarmlord
• 1x Phyrexian Vatmother
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Reaper of Sheoldred
• 1x Rot Wolf
• 1x Scourge Servant
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Spinebiter
• 1x Toxic Nim
• 1x Whispering Specter

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Crumbling Ashes
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Relic Putrescence

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Ebon Stronghold
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Unknown Shores

Instant (9)

• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Invigorate
• 1x Murder
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Strength in Numbers
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Tragic Slip

Commander (1)

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Caress of Phyrexia
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Disentomb
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Chant
• 1x Grim Discovery
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Nighthaze
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Raise Dead
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Spread the Sickness
• 1x Word of Binding

Artifact (8)

• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir *f-pre*
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Throne of Geth

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Maybeboard

Instant (6)

• 1x Become Immense
• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Necrotic Wound
• 1x Return to the Earth
• 1x Unnatural Predation
• 1x Victim of Night

Creature (6)

• 1x Blightwidow
• 1x Flensermite
• 1x Sandsteppe Mastodon *f-pre*
• 1x Skarrg Goliath
• 1x Tel-Jilad Fallen
• 1x Viridian Betrayers

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Dead Reckoning
• 1x Ichor Explosion
• 1x Morbid Plunder

Artifact (1)

• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Infect deck in progress. Theme is based around pump and trample to power through defenses, with a mix of aerial- and ground-based attacks.

One of the problems with many of the infect creatures is their relatively low toughness. This is overcome in several different ways:

• Pump Spells
• Graveyard Tutoring/Reanimation
• Trample effects such as Brawn, Overwhelming Stampede, and Strength in Numbers
• Ramp (to get bigger creatures out earlier): Blighted Woodland, Crypt of Agadeem, Explosive Vegetation, Isolated Watchtower, Sol Ring
• Deathtouch: Archetype of Finality granting deathtouch or directly generating deathtouch tokens through the Commander Hapatra, Vizier of Poison to deter against blocking, or lose defenders in the process.
• Unblockable effects: Whispersilk Cloak, Word of Binding, Spinebiter
• Turning their own artifact against them: Relic Putrescence

Proliferation Effects: Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine, Core Prowler, Grim Affliction, Plaguemaw Beast, Spread the Sickness, Throne of Geth

Card Draw (hard to do in these colors): Barren Moor, Caress of Phyrexia (or use it to poison others), Gravepurge, Lifecrafter's Bestiary, Grim Backwoods, Nighthaze

Combos: - Bloodforged Battleaxe + Throne of Geth for a proliferation engine if you can get direct attacks through with the axe and it's copies. - Either of the Demons (Carnifex Demon or Pestilence Demon) along with Glistening Oil, Tainted Strike, Phyresis, or Grafted Exoskeleton for massive amounts of flying infect damage. - Directly poison everyone at once with the activated mana ability of Pestilence Demon after hitting it with Glistening Oil, Tainted Strike, or Grafted Exoskeleton. - Cast or reanimate Putrefax (haste, trample, and infect), then sacrifice it to Plaguemaw Beast before end step for proliferation effects since he would be sacced anyways.

There are also a handful of spot removal spells to remove troublesome artifacts, enchantments, and creatures.

Hope you like it, and please give it a +1 if you do, or suggestions for improvement if you don't! (Trying to keep it B/G).

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 35 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.56
Tokens	Copy Clone, Phyrexian Insect 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch