Corrupting Influence
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa Commander Deck
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa leads a poison-based strategy that aims to get opponents to three or more poison counters as quickly as possible, then exploit the Corrupted threshold to steal value from their libraries while proliferating poison counters toward the ten needed for a kill. The deck floods the board with infect and toxic creatures to rapidly distribute poison counters, then uses repeated proliferation from combat triggers, landfall, and activated abilities to accelerate every opponent to lethal poison simultaneously. Phyrexian Swarmlord rewards a heavily poisoned table by generating a growing army of infect tokens, while Corrupted payoffs like Wurmquake and Geth's Summons provide explosive late-game power that scales with how thoroughly opponents have been infected.
Decklist
- Bilious Skulldweller
- Blight Mamba
- Blightbelly Rat
- Cankerbloom
- Contaminant Grafter
- Evolution Sage
- Glissa's Retriever
- Grateful Apparition
- Ichor Rats
- Ichorclaw Myr
- Mycosynth Fiend
- Myr Convert
- Norn's Choirmaster
- Pestilent Syphoner
- Phyrexian Swarmlord
- Plague Myr
- Plague Stinger
- Scavenging Ooze
- Venomous Brutalizer
- Viridian Corrupter
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive
- Windborn Muse
- Caress of Phyrexia
- Culling Ritual
- Cultivate
- Expand the Sphere
- Feed the Infection
- Fumigate
- Geth's Summons
- Infectious Inquiry
- Merciless Eviction
- Night's Whisper
- Noxious Assault
- Painful Truths
- Phyresis Outbreak
- Phyrexian Rebirth
- Unnatural Restoration
- Vat Emergence
- Wurmquake
- Beast Within
- Carrion Call
- Mortify
- Noxious Revival
- Putrefy
- Swords to Plowshares
- Vraska's Fall
- Ghostly Prison
- Moldervine Reclamation
- Norn's Decree
- Arcane Signet
- Chromatic Lantern
- Commander's Sphere
- Contagion Clasp
- Fellwar Stone
- Glistening Sphere
- Golgari Signet
- Grafted Exoskeleton
- Norn's Annex
- Phyrexian Atlas
- Sol Ring
- Trailblazer's Boots
- Bojuka Bog
- Canopy Vista
- Command Tower
- Exotic Orchard
- Fortified Village
- Karn's Bastion
- Krosan Verge
- Myriad Landscape
- Necroblossom Snarl
- Path of Ancestry
- Sandsteppe Citadel
- Shineshadow Snarl
- Sungrass Prairie
- Tainted Field
- Tainted Wood
- Temple of Malady
- Temple of Plenty
- Temple of Silence
- 6× Plains
- 6× Swamp
- 8× Forest