Ezuri's Proliferation

Commander / EDH Casual Counters GU (Simic) Infect Multiplayer Tokens

Spectreblade

Creature (35)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Blighted Agent
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deepglow Skate
• 1x Experiment One
• 1x Eyeless Watcher
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Gyre Sage
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Iridescent Hornbeetle
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Merfolk Skydiver
• 1x Mowu, Loyal Companion
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Pentavus
• 1x Sage of Hours
• 1x Skatewing Spy
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thrummingbird
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Viral Drake
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Whisperwood Elemental
• 1x Wild Beastmaster
• 1x Zegana, Utopian Speaker

Land (40)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 12x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 8x Island
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Novijen, Heart of Progress
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Artifact (5)

• 1x Animation Module
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Jiang Yanggu, Wildcrafter
• 1x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Commander (1)

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Bred for the Hunt
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Hadana's Climb  ^Flip
• 1x Inexorable Tide
• 1x Simic Ascendancy

Instant (6)

• 1x Arachnogenesis
• 1x Fuel for the Cause
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Pistus Strike
• 1x Titanic Brawl

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Biogenic Upgrade
• 1x Desert Twister
• 1x Fungal Sprouting
• 1x Monstrous Onslaught
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede

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This deck, led by Ezuri, Claw of Progress , started out as the Swell the Host Commander 2015 pre-constructed deck, which I have overhauled to make my own creation.

The strategy here is to get many low-power creatures into play, then have Ezuri give them counters to turn any of them into major threats. The deck has several creatures with power 2 or less, some of which have evasive abilities like Invisible Stalker , or grant abilities to creatures with +1/+1 counters like Zegana, Utopian Speaker . Others get benefits from +1/+1 counters beyond just the power and toughness boost, such as Experiment One , Gyre Sage , and Chasm Skulker . There are also cards that can bring several small creatures into play at once to really pile on the counters, such as Fungal Sprouting or Avenger of Zendikar , as well as cards that can produce a steady stream of creatures, such as Verdant Force and Awakening Zone . The deck also contains cards with the proliferate mechanic like Inexorable Tide , which increase both my own experience counters and the counters on my creatures.

The deck also has a few cards with infect. While infect is normally an all-or-nothing kind of ability, the idea here is to pile on a bunch of +1/+1 counters on an evasive infect creature like Blighted Agent , to the point where it can take out an opponent in one fell blow. Or, I can simply get one or two poison counters on my opponents, then proliferate them to death while still building up my main strategy. Viral Drake is useful to both strategies.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.82
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Insect 1/1 G, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Manifest 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Pentavite 1/1 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Servo 1/1 C, Spider 1/2 G, Squid 1/1 U
Folders	Commander