Patron of the Pox

Commander / EDH

themaskedhero

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Capital Punishment
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Ichor Explosion
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reign of the Pit
• 1x Remorseless Punishment
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Syphon Soul
• 1x Undercity Plague
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Whispers of Emrakul

Land (39)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 34x Swamp

Creature (19)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Cabal Executioner
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gnat Miser
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kuon, Ogre Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Locust Miser
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Ogre Marauder
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Sanguine Praetor
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Woebringer Demon

Artifact (9)

• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Boompile
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Paradise Plume
• 1x Profane Memento
• 1x Staff of the Death Magus

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Larceny
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Nettlevine Blight
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x Underworld Connections

Instant (2)

• 1x To the Slaughter
• 1x Urborg Justice

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Patron of the Nezumi is rather unpopular card overall, it only heads up two dozen recorded decks on EDHrec and makes cameos in the other 99 of just shy of 250. I get it though, its a pretty lofty seven converted mana cost for 6/6 with an unconventional ability. It screams being put in a Rat Tribal deck, but the agreed upon general - Marrow-Gnawer - is not only from the same block, but works extremely more effectively with the tribe. Even keeping that mind, Tribal Rats is a hugely underrepresented tribe online anyway, which saddens me. But from Patrons second ability, causing lose of life to your opponents when their stuff goes to the graveyard, I see the chance to profit off the ability in a Stax style build within the 1DH building restriction.Here is a great 1DH aka Dollar General primer to catch you up to speed on the variant Commander format.For those who are not huge on the Vintage metagame - dont worry, neither am I - Stax is often referred to as a "prison deck" that uses cards like Smokestack, Tangle Wire, Sphere of Resistance and Lodestone Golem which restrict the opponent's ability to play spells and keep permanents in play. But as our ceiling on cards is one dollar we dont have access to any of those cards besides Lodestone Golem, which is hardly secret tech. So what are we looking to put into this deck that will be best ape prison strategy in a highlander format without much of the tools that deck would often use? Well, when I first ventured down this road I considered putting Nath of the Gilt-Leaf at the helm, as it would put me into more colors and allow me to take influences from some of the Stax decks I seen helmed by Glissa, the Traitor. But honestly, the good cards I would want from that deck are either already in Black or too expensive to fit our deck. Additionally, land bases can get a little harder to master when youre in enemy colors and I like the challenges of monocolor alone anyway.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Demon */* B, Morph 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B