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Contaminant Grafter
Creature — Phyrexian Druid
Trample, toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Corrupted — At the beginning of your end step, if an opponent has three or more poison counters, draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Headers13 on
Power and Poison
2 months ago
thefiresoflurve on
Arwen's "Generous" Gifts
7 months ago
Cool take on Arwen. It's kind of an obvious synergy once you see it, but this is the first I've seen it, so thanks :)
Have you considered Contaminant Grafter? I didn't see it in the maybeboard, and I think it'd be amazing here. Could possibly cut a land for it since your avg CMC is low.
NoLifeGrimmjow on Atraxa, Praetor's Voice & Contaminant …
8 months ago
Thank you very much. I'm kinda new to commander and really don't have many people I can play against, so thank you for clarifying the command zone for me wallisface. Gidgetimer thanks for the ruling on Contaminant Grafter
Gidgetimer on Atraxa, Praetor's Voice & Contaminant …
8 months ago
Wallisface is correct about the first part. However; Contaminant Grafter has an intervening "if" clause on it's trigger. If no opponents have three or more poison counters at the beginning of the end step, it will not trigger. It can not retroactively trigger once Atraxa, Praetors' Voice proliferates bringing the opponents to 3 poison counters. Once both cards are on the battlefield and an opponent has 3 or more poison counters when your end step begins, you will chose the order of the triggers.
NoLifeGrimmjow on Atraxa, Praetor's Voice & Contaminant …
8 months ago
Okay so here's the scenario. Atraxa, Praetors' Voice is in the command zone and Contaminant Grafter is on the field. My opponents currently have 2 poison counters each. At the beginning of my end step, whose ability activates first? Atraxa, Praetors' Voice or Contaminant Grafter?
Bread-and-Butter-EDH on
Vishgraz, the Doomhive: Toxic Tokens Primer
1 year ago
NV_1980 thanks for the kind words! I’m surprised my play group is letting me run this tbh. But, I got excited about this set so I was probably gonna do it anyways :).
PX125, Ohran Frostfang I believe is a good addition to the deck. I think the obvious cuts would be either Species Specialist or Contaminant Grafter. I wouldn’t rely on the card draw so much but definitely the death touch is a nice addition. I think Contaminant Grafter would be the easier one to cut since you’re only drawing 1 card a turn and proliferating only if grater does damage, also giving mites trample isn’t that great without Craterhoof.
Edit: now that I’ve seen that grafter does proliferate any time any creature I control deals damage I’ll have to play test it more to see what I’d want to remove to make space for Ohran Frostfang
Bread-and-Butter-EDH on
Vishgraz, the Doomhive: Toxic Tokens Primer
1 year ago
NV_1980 thanks for the kind words! I’m surprised my play group is letting me run this tbh. But, I got excited about this set so I was probably gonna do it anyways :).
PX125, Ohran Frostfang I believe is a good addition to the deck. I think the obvious cuts would be either Species Specialist or Contaminant Grafter. I wouldn’t rely on the card draw so much but definitely the death touch is a nice addition. I think Contaminant Grafter would be the easier one to cut since you’re only drawing 1 card a turn and proliferating only if grater does damage, also giving mites trample isn’t that great without Craterhoof.
Vlasiax on
The Song of Phyresis
1 year ago
Mortlocke, thanks for your detailed answer. Most of your changes feel "correct" but keep in mind some of these:
- Don't feel bad cutting Grateful Apparition as Proliferate source because you've just added Bloated Contaminator and Contaminant Grafter which have easier time connecting and actually getting that effect due to Trample. With Phyresis Outbreak counting as one-time Proliferation (at least mathematically speaking, given the fact that you'll most likely use it AFTER everyone got counters). I personally play it ALONGSIDE those, because I've just bought Ixhel precon and my upgrades funds went elsewhere.
- You're right about White Sun's Twilight but please count it as a 7 CMC spell, because that's the minimum amount of mana required to unleash it's true potential.
- Yeah, Phyrexian Arena aside from thematic name I think already got it's time to shine. Burst draw from Infectious Inquiry is worth 2 turn cycles of keeping Arena around AND helps with main gameplan of killing opponents with poison counters (great starter and if they already have counters, consider this a pseudo-proliferate effect).
- Same thing applies to Infectious Bite - I might have an easier time slotting it in due to lacking , however during extensive goldfishing sessions I've discovered that it's not uncommon to start with T1 Toxic/Infect/anything creature and T2 Infectious Bite just to have posion counters spread and maybe kill that Birds of Paradise or Llanowar Elves out there. And late-game it's just "whatever, 2 mana, pseudo-proliferate" that might be enough to push someone to 9 poison and kill on the endstep from Atraxa (in your case) or push to 9 poison after combat with proliferation from creatures AND kill with Infectious Bite.
On the last note, I'll have another look at both mine and your decklist and let you know if I have any other ideas :) EDIT: I also forgot to mention Phyrexian Scriptures - I use it to protect my commander and sweep the board during the same turn due to Proliferate. I think that you might cast it, targetting Atraxa and making her artfact creature just to blow every other creature at the endstep during the same turn from her Proliferate effect.