It's not pronounced "Pie-rexian"

Commander / EDH GWUB Infect Midrange Poisonous Proliferate Theme/Gimmick

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Land (35)

• 3x Forest
• 3x Island
• 3x Plains
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Raffine's Tower
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Spara's Headquarters
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x The Seedcore
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Necrogen Communion
• 1x Ossification
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Skrelv's Hive

Creature (21)

• 1x Annex Sentry
• 1x Myr Convert
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Blightbelly Rat
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Bloated Contaminator
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Contaminant Grafter
• 1x Crawling Chorus
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Slaughter Singer
• 1x Tainted Observer
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest
• 1x Voidwing Hybrid
• 1x Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 1x Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
• 1x Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
• 1x Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Artifact (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Mox Opal

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ajani, Sleeper Agent
• 1x The Eternal Wanderer
• 1x Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Commander (1)

Instant (14)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bring the Ending
• 1x Delay
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Experimental Augury
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Infectious Bite
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Prologue to Phyresis
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vraska's Fall
• 1x Whisper of the Dross

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Expand the Sphere
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Infectious Inquiry
• 1x Phyresis Outbreak
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Thirsting Roots
• 1x Unnatural Restoration

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Creature (6)

• 1x Glistener Elf
• 1x Necrogen Rotpriest
• 1x Phyrexian Crusader
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Plague Stinger
• 1x Ria Ivor, Bane of Bladehold

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Concerted Effort

Instant (5)

• 1x Anoint with Affliction
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Serum Snare
• 1x Stinging Study

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (3)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Skullclamp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

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Atraxa was my first deck I posted on here back when she was released in 2015's commander sets. We're back on her after buying a single collector booster and opening the Borderless Ichor Step-and-Compleat Foil of her.

This is my attempt at building a new style phyrexian infect deck.

The new additions to this theme from All will be One really kicked it into a viable style of construction. We used to have to rely on combat damage to mostly get the poison in with a few proliferate cards to round it out. With all the proliferation now available, we can get one or two counters on and proliferate out.

Getting those first counters are much easier with cards like card:Prologue to Phyresis and the like that just apply one to all our opponents.

An uptick in flying creatures with infect allows card:Concerted Effort to be a serious problem. It can take an okay boardstate to a lights out situation if we get it to stick at the right time. It will be in the maybe board for now and I'll rotate it in/out during my testing.

Toxic and Infect are applied differently, and as such, compound if one creature has both effects on it. Damage is being dealt allowing Toxic to trigger and the combat damage is replaced by infect. Example: 1/1 creature with Toxic 1 and Infect will apply 2 poison counters and deal 0 damage.

I'm sure I've missed something in my thought process here that I'll add later. I'll have to do some testing to see if we need more draw or a change in the ramp artifacts, but, for now I'm happy with this list.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.55
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Ajani, Sleeper Agent, Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C, Samurai 2/2 W w/ Double strike, Treasure