Turn your guts into snakes!

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Counters Indestructible Infect Tokens

Kroxloq

Creature (30)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ammit Eternal
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Channeler Initiate
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dusk Urchins
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Generous Patron
• 1x Grim Poppet
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Obelisk Spider
• 1x Ohran Viper
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Quillspike
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Seshiro the Anointed
• 1x Skinrender
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Soul Snuffers
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Viridian Corrupter
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 12x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Beastmaster Ascension
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Crumbling Ashes
• 1x Cryptolith Rite
• 1x Flourishing Defenses
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Pernicious Deed

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Grim Affliction
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Second Harvest

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Incremental Blight
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Artifact (8)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Contagion Clasp
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Creature (33)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Banewhip Punisher
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Decimator Beetle
• 1x Decimator of the Provinces
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Festering Mummy
• 1x Fume Spitter
• 1x Harbinger of Night
• 1x Hooded Blightfang
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Noxious Hatchling
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Regal Force
• 1x Rendclaw Trow
• 1x Shambling Swarm
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Sorceress Queen
• 1x Swarm Guildmage
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Vhati il-Dal
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (16)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Read the Bones
• 2x Three Visits
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes
• 1x Verdant Confluence
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Virtus's Maneuver

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Vampiric Rites
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen
• 1x Vraska, Swarm's Eminence

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Serrated Arrows
• 1x Slate of Ancestry
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots

Land (10)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Instant (8)

• 1x Barrier Breach
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Splendid Agony
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Wretched Confluence

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Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons just looking to flood the board with snakes!

This deck looks to slither a bunch of snakes onto the board by spreading annoying -1/-1 tokens all over the place! Even if enemy creatures don't die from the poisons putting a pile of -1/-1 tokens on something makes it look at lot less scary.

To spread -1/-1 tokens we have a host of creatures with infect/wither and some proliferate effects thrown in for good measure. Ammit Eternal will consistently create deathtouch snek tokens, Dusk Urchins operates similarly but draws cards, awesome! Devoted Druid is ramp + snek and part of a combo engine with Quillspike for infinite snek.

There are some "nonbo" situations in this deck, and that is OK. Midnight Banshee will kill all of our snakes each turn (which sucks) but re-creates those snakes plus more and gets help from Blood Artist and Obelisk Spider to really nuke opponents life totals. Wickerbough Elder actually loves the -1/-1 counters that Hapatra and Soul Snuffers creates to destroy vital opponent enchantments and artifacts.

Proliferate those tokens because yes please. Contagion Clasp, Contagion Engine and Plaguemaw Beast can just flood the board with snek and control enemy board states. Drop In Garruk's Wake or Black Sun's Zenith when you absolutely positively have to clear the board for snek hugs.

Let's not neglect +1/+1 effects either! Proliferate some goodies from Forgotten Ancient, Ivy Lane Denizen and Generous Patron. I didn't focus the deck on +1/+1 stuff but I feel it's important to have some ways to remove -1/-1 from our own team and +1/+1 tokens can help combat that along with Quillspike.

Snek loves having cards. Cards mean more snek. Helping us draw is Generous Patron who draws like nobody's business. Grim Backwoods a snek, draw a card. Seshiro the Anointed makes our snakes tougher and has them bring us cards, how sweet!

So far this deck has been interactive and full of surprises. There are many other synergies in this deck and this general could be built in a number of ways. To make a long story short, this is a fun deck that is resilient (nobody wants to attack into a team of deathtouchers!) and can attack for big damage. I am sure there are other "go wide" strategies in these colors I am missing but so far I love this deck! hssss

(Inspiration for title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjobAeMBos)

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.53
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elf Warrior 1/1 G, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Insect 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 G, Snake 1/1 G w/ Deathtouch, Worm 1/1 BG