Nightmare Syphilis Elemental

Commander / EDH Aggro Battlecruiser Bracket 3 BUG (Sultai) FNM Infect Phyrexian Proliferate Stompy Trample Voltron

Metroid_Hybrid

Land (33)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkmoss Bridge
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Hashep Oasis
• 1x Haunted Mire
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 1x Ice Tunnel
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Island
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 3x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 2x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Tangled Islet
• 1x Tanglepool Bridge
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Woodland Chasm
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Mana Rock (5)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Glistening Sphere

Recursion (4)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Unnatural Restoration
• 1x Journey to Eternity *f-pre*  ^Flip
• 1x Corpse Cur

Old-School Draw Engines (3)

• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC

Infect (25)

• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Blight Mamba
• 1x Flensermite
• 1x Ichorclaw Myr
• 1x Necropede
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Contagious Nim
• 1x Cystbearer
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Rot Wolf
• 1x Viridian Corrupter
• 1x Whispering Specter
• 1x Carrion Call
• 1x Core Prowler
• 1x Corpse Cur
• 1x Hand of the Praetors
• 1x Trigon of Infestation
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Putrefax
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Phyrexian Swarmlord

Proliferate (7)

• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Thirsting Roots
• 1x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Unnatural Restoration
• 1x Glistening Sphere
• 1x Core Prowler
• 1x Viral Drake

Protection (5)

• 1x Leather Armor
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Vigor

Moar POWER!!! (3)

• 1x Ana Sanctuary
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Invigorate

Cloning (1)

• 1x Helm of the Host *f-pre*

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Thirsting Roots
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Into the North
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Navigation Orb
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

Removal (8)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Ram Through
• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Phyresis Outbreak
• 1x Viridian Corrupter
• 1x Vraska's Fall

Infect Burn (5)

• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Prologue to Phyresis
• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Phyresis Outbreak
• 1x Vraska's Fall

+1/+1 Counters (4)

• 1x Bow of Nylea
• 1x Hadana's Climb *f-pre*  ^Flip
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Vigor

Vigilance (2)

• 1x Accorder's Shield
• 1x Team Pennant

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Maybeboard

New (3)

• 1x Carnivorous Canopy
• 1x Vat Emergence
• 1x Raised by Giants *f-pre*

Other (1)

• 1x Emergent Ultimatum *f-pre*

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Brokkos, Apex of Forever

{UBP}{GP} Mutant Voltron-Aggro

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a.k.a. Syphilisaurus Rex

Motivation

The shear amount of power & flexiblity the Mutate mechanic lends to the otherwise permanently static list of underwhelming Infect creatures, is outstanding. And to that end, Sultai colors is objectively the best Tri-colored combination for Infect. For starters, Sultai has access to the most sources of Poison Counters in the entire game, including all 5 of the Infect-Burn spells printed in Phyrexia: All is One(ONE/ONC)..

Either Sultai Mutate Commander can potentially turn any (non-Human) creature with Infect into a 6/6 Infect Trample for only 4-5 mana. However, for our purposes, it is clear that Brokkos, Apex of Forever completely out-classes Otrimi, the Ever-Playful due to the former's ability to effectively cheat the Commander Tax simply by being able to be Mutated straight out of the Graveyard..

So like some kind of a nightmarish case of genital warts— no matter how many you may burn away, they will aways spring back up, more resilient than before, again, and again... and again...

History of Infection

Most of my Commander decks contain at least some measure of Infect as a back-up Wincon, usually via enablers such as Tainted Strike and/or Grafted Exoskeleton. However, this is my first "dedicated" Infect deck in the format where I am running a full stable of creatures with Infect plus Proliferate-support.

The general philosophy of an Infect deck can summed up as:

• "Who cares how much "life" they may think they have, I'm counting down each of their "real" life total(s) with an individual d10! Mwah-Hahahahah!!"

Gameplan

The gameplan is pretty straightforward, and dare I say, even fair..

1. Play what ramp, rocks, burn, and cheap(ish) creatures with Infect you can on-curve, and then "give-the-HIV" to your opponents ASAP.

2. Continue attacking whenever possible while juicing up via mutations, +1/+1 Counters, etc.

3. Close the game out through the pincer-attack of proliferating existing (+1/+1 & Poison) Counters and the relentless assault of our ever-growing, Syphilis Elemental & friends..

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1-hit KO's..

Any one of the following cards can make a clean hit from our Nightmare Syphilis Elemental unconditionally lethal..

• Ana Sanctuary (+5/+5)

• Fireshrieker (Double Strike)

• Invigorate (+4/+4)

• Unspeakable Symbol (Instant pump)

• Winged Temple of Orazca   (Double Power)

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'Glistening' progress: 95% Compleat

non-Lands: 65/65

+ Lands: 29/33

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Total: 94/98

Top Ranked	Achieved #32 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #15 position in Commander / EDH 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Battlecruiser 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BUG (Sultai) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	8 months
Exclude colors	WR
Splash colors	U
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 29 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Insect 1/1 G w/ Infect
Folders	Favorite decks, Good Ideas, BlackWinds' Decks, Commander, agony, cool deck ideas, what the actual fuck, Maybe, Seems Cool, I like this deck