Pestilence and Permanents: A Guide to being Cancer

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Casual

Kingmakerr

Creature (24)

• 1x Blight Mamba
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Cinderbones
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Drakestown Forgotten
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 1x Horobi, Death's Wail
• 1x Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Reaper of the Wilds
• 1x Rendclaw Trow
• 1x Rot Wolf
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skinrender
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul Snuffers
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 8x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 16x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Curse of Death's Hold
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Necrogenesis
• 1x Nettlevine Blight
• 1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Raking Canopy
• 1x Screams from Within

Artifact (9)

• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Plague Boiler
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Serrated Arrows
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Nin
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Instant (8)

• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Instill Infection
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Unravel the Aether

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Incremental Blight
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Pox
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Treasured Find

Commander (1)

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DISCLAIMER: my playgroup plays WITHOUT poison counter rules, so this is NOT an infect deck (plus I'm not an A**hole lol)

When it comes to this deck, the name of the game is DISEASE - the deck was built with flavour and synergy put first and foremost. The aim in the design was to make a deck that simulated illness and plague as best as possible, whether that be through contagious enchantments, crippling -1/-1 counters, or blatantly disease-themed classics such as Pox, Smallpox , and Pestilence . I want 'em all coughing by the time a game is through!

This deck is not for everybody, as it's primary focus is to be fun and flavourful, though despite how casual it is overall it still definitely holds its own surprisingly well: that's primarily due to how easily it deals with just about any massive threat on the table.

All in all, this is a casual deck that's a ton of fun to pilot (if you play along with the whole 'pestilence and disease' angle) yet still holds it own and puts up a decent fight. It has some pretty nifty little combos as well (nothing is funnier than a Vhati il-Dal + Tree of Perdition to put a cruel opponent in their place lol), but none are infinite, because I personally dislike winning that way.

(P.S. - as of now, I've playtested it more thoroughly, and I actually won the majority of the games at my table and had loads of fun doing it - including one game that ended with Tree of Perdition + Puppet Strings saving my life, then making both my opponents' life totals 1 before a lovely Smallpox LOL good times)

Comments, concerns, and suggestions are all welcome!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 25 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	EDH Decks, edh ideas