I think I'm obligated to upvote for the animated background alone. Well done

Hey, I was so excited when I saw the new Vorinclex but the phyrexian text addition is beautiful!

WaveHarp I too am excited for the very flavorful new smallclex. I intend on slotting him in for Corrupted Conscience. I'm also thinking of trying out Dovin's Veto in Inexorable Tide's slot as well. What changes would you make to your own Atraxa infect deck with the new smallclex in mind?

So I slowly want to build this deck. Honestly wish I ran into this page sooner because I just got into magic last month and went a lil deep a lil quick lol! But thjs definitely a deck i want to make as when I first tried magic in like 2012 it was with phyrexian stuff, but just couldn't get into it.

Question, I just pulled doubling season from a pack, does it not have a use in this deck?

Zephel693, thank you for the very nice compliment. I remember when New Phyrexia had first dropped and I had a playset of Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon because for some reason I thought I wanted to play standard. But I lost interest, sold the Skittles and didn't revisit Infect until I managed to get my hands on a Atraxa pre-con a year later after they were all bought up. I honestly can't recall another Commander pre-con being nearly as popular as Atraxa. Moving on to your question about Doubling Season - i've definitely considered it but quickly determined it not being optimal for Infect. Why?

1. The first half of the card (If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead) is completely irrelevant to the deck unless i'm running Phyrexian Swarmlord. I did give swarmlord a shot, but I quickly found the constraints for it's token spwaning to be too restrictive to be considered useful - it's just a "win more" card in my opinion.

2. The 2nd half of the card (If an effect would put one or more counters on a permanent you control, it puts twice that many of those counters on that permanent instead.) isn't worth the CMC. While +1/+1, and Fading counters are definitely part of the sub-theme of this deck to have to pay to get to double the number of counters I get to put on a permanent is far too taxing and slow.

I say that the doubling season (but for infect) was officially spoiled in Kaldheim - yes, i'm talking about Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider or as I like to refer to him (and hopefully everyone else will) - smallclex. He doubles the number of poison counters placed on opponents and doubles the combat damage output from infect creatures. If smallclex were to receive infect (ala Tainted Strike) one swing of combat damage from him would be lethal. The fact that smallclex can slow or deny the progression of loyalty counters on enemy planeswalkers (while doubling yours) is simply icing on the cake. Yes, the denial of counters could be problematic when facing creatures with Undying effects - but I think the pros outweigh the cons.

To summarize - Doubling Season is not good for Infect decks as it only has a marginal boon for the wincon - getting poison counters on players. Doubling Season is more suited to Superfriends or Atraxa builds that have +1/+1 counters and tokens as the primary themes.

Zephel693 - quick correction. I mean to say that Doubling Season doesn't provide a boon to the deck's wincon - getting poison counters on players. All it does is provide a marginal boon to the deck overall.

Mortlocke, ooooh okay! Thanks for the info! I'ma see about trading it then at my LGS as they had a blightsteel up seems worth the exchange.