MTG Salvation

Hey everybody! I've been have a horrible time with this deck of mine. I've been trying to do a B/U/G Infect/Proliferation sorta thing, but it seems to fall flat consistently. I was wondering if some more experienced players might help me make something out of this travesty.


As far as I know, this isn't against the rules, so I'll post the link to my deck on Tapped Out: Phyrexian Epidemic. Here's some information on my playtests and such.

Good lord, Imma try to tackle this as you say, travesty. I'm guessing your goal is to win through poisoning your opponent as fast as possible, using your general for colors and perhaps a finisher.

Posting this decklist just to get the discussion started. I may alter it later.

The goal of the deck isn't for infect only, but using -1/-1 counters and proliferate to win the game as well. I feel like I'm missing out on something if I make it only about infect.

What is it about my deck that you feel doesn't work?

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The goal of the deck isn't for infect only, but using -1/-1 counters and proliferate to win the game as well. I feel like I'm missing out on something if I make it only about infect.

What is it about my deck that you feel doesn't work?

Well, I like to think you need a good game plan for a good competitive edh deck. With infect it's getting in there fast and low. Rafiq infect is a good deck to take a look at to see this game plan in action. If you play too many high casting cost spells it sort of defeats your game plan. Mimeoplasm is often used for graveyard recursion, but the colors are solid for an infect deck. Classic infect game plan is turn one or two infect creature, swing with a pump, then swing again with evasion and/or proliferate your way to victory.

Cards that take a long time to get online like Beastmaster Ascension or cards that may be dead draws because your opponent isn't poisoned yet such as Chained Throatseeker or if you have no creatures in play in Followed Footsteps can really set you back when you are facing a Zur or when a Jenara, Asura of War goodstuff is drawing heat every single fraking card.

You'll also need to take advantage of the fact that you are attacking your opponent with poison as a win condition, you don't need to worry about their life so cards like Invigorate and Nature's Claim can be quite potent.

Also, since all of your effective creature should have infect, you won't need creature with wither or equipment like Grafted Exoskeleton these will be redundant. Instead of relying on cards that get rid of a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it like Crumbling Ashes replace it with cheap targeted removal like Doomblade, Dismember, or even cheaper Snuff Out.
You could also go tempo and use blue bounce cards like a prebanned Edric deck would run, like Into the Roil and the newly printed Cyclonic Rift to get your infect creatures in there for the last hit you need.

You have alot of options, but you want to steer towards cheaper faster more effective cards. I play Zur as my general, and by the time you can cast something like Life's Finale or Mana Reflection I'll have done alot of bad things to you.

The deck I posted is just off the top of my head effective cards for an infect deck, with some fine tuning it could start to get devastating. You could even throw in some graveyard tutoring with Entomb and Buried Alive throw a Phyrexian Dreadnought and Blighted Agent for a 12/12 unblockable infect Mimeoplasm. Possibilities go on and on, you'll have decide how you want to play it.

I get the low and fast part, but what do I do about the late-game if I'm unable to kill them early?

Well, against a control deck, such as Wydwen, the Biting Gale, Zur, the Enchanter, or Griselbrand, if it goes late game you have already lost most likely. I would use your general to sneak in the last poison damage when they are tapped out by recurring a hasted infect creature like Skittles or Putefax maybe even put Blackcleave Goblin in there as well, or Ichor Rats for a guaranteed point of poison. Or of course proliferate your way to victory, recurring Viral Drake or Core Prowler.

There is no be all end all strategy to win, but I'm finding better and better cards for this deck every time I come back to this forum. Stonewood Invocation and Berserk are other amazing pump cards for this deck. Throw in a Worldly Tutor and a Survival of the Fittest to get the creatures you need.

I'll update the deck as time goes on if you like.

I wouldn't run creatures like Grave Titan or Glissa, the Traitor that don't have infect, you try to kill your opponents by poisoning them so they'll be often a dead draw. The deathtouch can be good sometimes but I think removal Would be the better choice. Glissa has not many targets either because there are only three artifcts in your List thet can Be sacrificed. I can't see the point of running Melira, Sylvok Outcast. Opponents gaining control of your creatures won't appear often. Especialli when you don't tun Black Sun's Zenith.