What Doesn't Kill You...

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Counters Infect Wither

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Creature (30)

• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Blightwidow
• 1x Bloated Contaminator
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Decimator Beetle
• 1x Deity of Scars
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dusk Urchins
• 1x Glissa, the Traitor
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Lichenthrope
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Noxious Hatchling
• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Phyrexian Hydra
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Quillspike
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 1x Skinrender
• 1x Soul Snuffers
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest
• 1x Vhati il-Dal
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Death Wielder

Land (35)

• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 10x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Haunted Mire
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Artifact (8)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Kusari-Gama
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (6)

• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Second Harvest
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Whisper of the Dross

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Aid from the Cowl
• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Primal Vigor
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Incremental Blight
• 1x Liliana's Influence
• 1x Natural OrderGC
• 1x Thirsting Roots
• 1x Tower Above
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith

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Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons is a really weird card, and the -1/-1 counter manipulation is really counterintuitive. Building around it in Standard for Amonkhet was fun, and turning that into a Commander deck turned out to be a real challenge. This is a hard deck to run, since it weakens itself for gains and then removes that weakness for even more gains, but when it works, it's incredibly violent. It only looks like it's not competitive on paper-- in practice, it's frequently a cEDH pod killer just because it's so off-meta.

This switches between poison and wither to clear creatures, and uses poison as its main win condition. It's able to just swing people out if it has to, though, since they shouldn't have much in the way of blockers and there are some big creatures in here. There are a few aristocrats kind of cards too, so as people lose stuff to the wither and the poison, it either burns them or otherwise boosts my stuff.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 1 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander