The deck turns every Equipment into a body. Ekthi gives each Equipment living weapon and pumps the Phyrexian Germs it creates, so equipment-heavy draws become a board of armed creatures. The engine is that 0/0 Germs enter as 1/1s under Ekthi. This lets Sword of the Meek return itself from the graveyard every time it makes a Germ, and an artifact sacrifice outlet turns that into an endless loop of artifact entries and sacrifices. Tutors, artifact cost reducers and Equipment recursion assemble the loop, while sword-carrying Germs and equipped creatures pressure opponents in the meantime. How it wins: It aims to assemble Ekthi, Sword of the Meek and Grinding Station to mill every opponent out, falling back on protection-sword voltron beats with double strike and evasion when the combo is not available. Key roles: - Infinite loop core: With Ekthi out, each Sword of the Meek entry makes a 1/1 Germ. Sacrificing the Sword in response returns it, the entering artifact untaps the mill outlet, and the cycle repeats endlessly. A mana-producing sacrifice outlet can also convert the loop into unbounded colorless mana. (Sword of the Meek, Grinding Station, Krark-Clan Ironworks) - Combo assembly: Equipment and artifact tutors, plus a sacrifice-into-next-mana-value searcher, dig out the missing piece. A 1-drop can be traded up into a 2-mana combo piece, and top-of-library artifact casting keeps finding more. (Stoneforge Mystic, Oswald Fiddlebender, Enlightened Tutor) - Artifact recursion: Destroyed or discarded combo pieces and Equipment come back from the graveyard. Phyrexian attacks can return artifacts straight to the battlefield. (Cid, Freeflier Pilot, Forge Anew, Vulpine Harvester) - Equipment card engine: Every Equipment that enters can draw cards. Metalcraft and free-equip effects let the many cheap Equipment be cast and moved around for almost nothing, refilling the hand toward combo pieces. (Puresteel Paladin, Sram, Senior Edificer, Kíli the Resourceful) - Germ voltron backup: Each Equipment arrives already attached to a pumped Germ. The Swords of X and Y, artifact-count scalers and granted double strike turn those tokens into lethal, card-generating attackers. (Sword of Fire and Ice, Nettlecyst, Halvar, God of Battle) - Protection: Mass indestructibility, phasing and shroud keep the commander and the board alive through removal and wraths. (Teferi's Protection, Flawless Maneuver, Lightning Greaves)

Ekthi, Contaminator Priest decklist

• Adaptive Omnitool
• Aettir and Priwen
• Arcane Signet
• Argentum Armor
• Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
• Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• Buster Sword
• Colossus Hammer
• Commander's Plate
• Excalibur, Sword of Eden
• Grinding Station
• Krark-Clan Ironworks
• Lightning Greaves
• Marble Diamond
• Masterwork of Ingenuity
• Mox Opal
• Mystic Forge
• Nettlecyst
• Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• Paradise Mantle
• Shadowspear
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Stoneforge Masterwork
• Sword of Feast and Famine
• Sword of Fire and Ice
• Sword of Forge and Frontier
• Sword of Hearth and Home
• Sword of War and Peace
• Sword of Wealth and Power
• Sword of the Animist
• Sword of the Meek
• Swordsman's Steel
• Wrecking Ball Arm
• Ancient Den
• Ancient Tomb
• Buried Ruin
• Cavern of Souls
• Darksteel Citadel
• Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• Gemstone Caverns
• Inventors' Fair
• Mirrex
• Monumental Henge
• 16× Plains
• Rogue's Passage
• Scavenger Grounds
• The Mycosynth Gardens
• Three Tree City
• Urza's Saga
• War Room
• Cid, Freeflier Pilot
• Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
• Codsworth, Handy Helper
• Foundry Inspector
• Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
• Jhoira's Familiar
• Kíli the Resourceful
• Mite Overseer
• Oswald Fiddlebender
• Puresteel Paladin
• Skrelv, Defector Mite
• Sram, Senior Edificer
• Stoneforge Mystic
• Vulpine Harvester
• Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
• Forge Anew
• Land Tax
• Sigarda's Aid
• Akroma's Will
• Dispatch
• Enlightened Tutor
• Flawless Maneuver
• Generous Gift
• Path to Exile
• Rebuff the Wicked
• Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
• Swords to Plowshares
• Teferi's Protection
• Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
• Hour of Reckoning
• Plains
• Plains
• Plains