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Commander / EDH* BUG (Sultai) Counters Infect Proliferate

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Land (40)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 4x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 4x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rishadan Port
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Instant (18)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cryptic Command
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Experimental Augury
• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Negate
• 1x Prologue to Phyresis
• 1x Saw it Coming
• 1x Slip Out the Back
• 1x Steady Progress
• 1x Tear Asunder
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Artifact (10)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak
• 1x Winged Boots

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Treachery

Commander (1)

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Contentious Plan
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Duress
• 1x Expand the Sphere
• 1x Expropriate
• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Phyresis Outbreak
• 1x Planewide Celebration
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Summer Bloom
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Unnatural Restoration

Creature (10)

• 1x Blackcleave Goblin
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Flux Channeler
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Suq'Ata Assassin
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

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Poison-Control

NOTE: Removing Jeweled Lotus, Mana Crypt, Treachery, and replacing expensive lands with less optimal versions can reduce the cost of this deck by more than $500 (USD).

This deck is a control deck with the winning condition being poison counters. Control decks need card draw to keep the advantage and the main card draw for this deck is the commander Damia, Sage of Stone. There are only 6 other cards in this deck that give card draw and all of them have another function.

To counteract the low card draw the deck is very land heavy (40) with 4 mana rocks and Dark Ritual. We want to be able to cast Damia on turn 7 or earlier as often as possible. Once Damia is out we need to protect her so that we can draw into our win conditions. To do this use the cards added to this deck for control and to make it easier there are also multiple equipments with either 'Shroud' or 'Hexproof'.

Win Conditions

The combination of these cards is how this deck wins the game. There are no infinite combos in this deck, however the combination of Evolution Sage and Scapeshift can easily win the game if you have already put poison counters on the other players. Other than that combo expect this to take multiple turns and use the control aspect to stretch out the game.

Poison (11)

* Blackcleave Goblin

• Blighted Agent

• Ichor Rats

• Infectious Bite

• Infectious Inquiry

• Phyresis Outbreak

• Phyrexian Crusader

• Prologue to Phyresis

• Suq'Ata Assassin

• Venerated Rotpriest

• Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Proliferate (16)

* Contentious Plan

• Evolution Sage

• Expand the Sphere

• Experimental Augury

• Flux Channeler

• Fuel for the Cause

• Grim Affliction

• Inexorable Tide

• Karn's Bastion

• Planewide Celebration

• Pollenbright Druid

• Steady Progress

• Sword of Truth and Justice

• Unnatural Restoration

• Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Ramp

* Burgeoning

• Chromatic Lantern

• Dark Ritual

• Expand the Sphere

• Exploration

• Jeweled Lotus

• Mana Crypt

• Scapeshift

• Sol Ring

• Summer Bloom

Other

* Expropriate - this is a late game card that can give the extra push you need to win the game

• Artful Dodge - There aren't many but pair this with a creature that has infect do get poison counters past blockers, then do it again

• Creeping Tar Pit - Hissing Quagmire - Lumbering Falls - Man lands to help with the low creature count and give you blockers when you need them most

• Rishadan Port - To keep your oppenent from using that one annoying utility land

• Urza's Saga - can give you more blockers and search for an artifacts such as Sol Ring, Jeweled Lotus, and Mana Crypt

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Citizen 2/2 WUBRG, Construct 0/0 C, Treasure