Venomous Decay
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $458.90
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-1/-1 Counters
-1/-1 Payoffs
Anthem
Blood Artist
Combo
Draw
Vraska, Golgari Queen
+2: You may sacrifice another permanent. If you do, you gain 1 life and draw a card. −3: Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less. −9: You get an emblem with "Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, that player loses the game."
Planeswalker
1
Hate/Stax
Land
Protection
Ramp
Recursion
Animate Dead
Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Enchantment
1
Removal
Maybeboard
Contagion Engine
When Contagion Engine enters the battlefield, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature target player controls. {4}, {T}: Proliferate, then proliferate again. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there. Then do it again.)
Artifact
1
Serrated Arrows
Serrated Arrows enters the battlefield with three arrowhead counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no arrowhead counters on Serrated Arrows, sacrifice it. {T}, Remove an arrowhead counter from Serrated Arrows: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.
Artifact
1
Vraska, Swarm's Eminence
Whenever a creature you control with deathtouch deals damage to a player or planeswalker, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. −2: Create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and "Whenever this creature deals damage to a planeswalker, destroy that planeswalker."
Planeswalker
1
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Description
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Basically a worse "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Carnifex Demon"}},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Does "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Chord of Calling"}},{"insert":" have useful targets?"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eldritch Evolution"}},{"insert":" can destroy a token to fetch "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Blood Artist"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Devoted Druid"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Deathrite Shaman"}},{"insert":" for hate and stax"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nTo Add/Cut"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"+1 "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Talisman of Resilience"}},{"insert":" "},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\nSources"},{"attributes":{"header":1},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-final-counterdown/"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/the-cycle-of-toxicity-hapatra-edh/"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"https://old.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/byfotg/deck_help_cutting_cards_in_hapatra/"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/hapatra-40-1/?cb=1560088570"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"}]}
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