MTG Salvation

Here's something I just put together that I figured would be sorta fun to play, and since my playroup acknowledges the 10-poison counters death, I figured that this would be a pretty powerful strategy. The general is sorta arbitrary, since there isn't necessarily a Jund commander that helps promote the infect strategy, but I figured Adun was nice since he can allow you to bring back creatures you lost when needed. Definitely looking for suggestions, and this is just my first list.

Needs more Dictate of the Twin Gods or Gratuitous Violence if you want to end it in a hurry.

No Outmaneuver or Predatory Focus? These should be a must if you run infect and have access to green or red. Basically they give all your dudes what Spinebiter over there has for a turn which can be the big game decider.

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Needs more Dictate of the Twin Gods or Gratuitous Violence if you want to end it in a hurry.

No Outmaneuver or Predatory Focus? These should be a must if you run infect and have access to green or red. Basically they give all your dudes what Spinebiter over there has for a turn which can be the big game decider.

I agree on something like Gratuitous Violence, as it serves as another Xenagos, God of Revels like card. Although, I'm pretty skeptical about Dictate of the Twin Gods. On cards that virtually make my creatures unblockable, wouldn't I just want more Overrun effects? I know this list needs a lot of work, I probably want more effects such as Demonspine Whip and Kessig Wolf Run.

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Needs more Dictate of the Twin Gods or Gratuitous Violence if you want to end it in a hurry.

No Outmaneuver or Predatory Focus? These should be a must if you run infect and have access to green or red. Basically they give all your dudes what Spinebiter over there has for a turn which can be the big game decider.

I agree on something like Gratuitous Violence, as it serves as another Xenagos, God of Revels like card. Although, I'm pretty skeptical about Dictate of the Twin Gods. On cards that virtually make my creatures unblockable, wouldn't I just want more Overrun effects? I know this list needs a lot of work, I probably want more effects such as Demonspine Whip and Kessig Wolf Run.

I wouldn't recommend overrun if you don't want Outmanuver or Predatory Focus. I would recommend the two I suggested as although your creatures get blocked they still do their infect damage to the opponent, all of it. Got 10 damage worth of infect? Cast either of the two and watch as your opponent is surprised they cannot stop the damage outside of fog effects.

Dictate of the Twin Gods is fairly nice only because it has flash.

Okay I took some of your suggestions and made some updates:

+ Gratitous Violence
+ Outmaneuver
+ Flesh//Blood
+ Captive Flame
+ Soul's Fire
+ Worldly Tutor
+ Sakura-Tribe Elder
+ Sacred Armory
- Sylvan Library
- Sarkhan Vol
- Nature's Lore
- Gaea's Anthem
- Farseek
- Fallen Ferromancer
- Dance of the Dead
- Beast Within

Anyways, here is my updated list that I'll include in the OP.

Only other thing I can think of that would go really good with the deck is Warstorm Surge. I look forward to hearing how the deck does against other decks in multiplayer.

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Only other thing I can think of that would go really good with the deck is Warstorm Surge. I look forward to hearing how the deck does against other decks in multiplayer.

Yeah, I considered Warstorm Surge but also thought it may be too expensive. It will definitely be something on my radar, after I start getting some games in. I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to build this deck, but I'll keep this updated if I do.

One of the main reasons why I put this list together is because for a long time, my brother had been working on a Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon list, with an infect theme, and people just kept spending their removal on whatever he had, and he never had enough gas to keep up. What I'm trying to do with this is have 30+ infect guys and be able to keep spitting them out consistently, so that removal is quite irrelevant.

Made a couple other updates, will include them in the OP:

+ Purphoros, God of the Forge
+ Beastmaster Ascension
- Sakura-Tribe Elder
- Sneak Attack

I am stumped here as there is nothing else I can think of that your deck is missing.
Hopefully your deck works out really well.

Siege behemoth lets your infect stuff ignore blockers

Because they all effectively have double strike (or quadruple strike in EDH) infect creatures tend to be somewhat over-costed for their power and toughness. This hardly means infect isn't a viable strategy in EDH, but it does mean you'll need some sources of card advantage to keep up with the bombs your opponents are dropping. You're off to a good start with Phyrexian Arena and Necropotence but I would go a lot deeper. In Jund colors there's Sylvan Library, Sign in Blood, and Night's Whisper on the cheap. Something else to consider is Infiltration Lens since it puts the defending player between a rock and a hard place.