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Venser, Corpse Puppet
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Wizard
Lifelink, toxic 1 Whenever you proliferate, choose one — • If you don't control a creature named The Hollow Sentinel, create The Hollow Sentinel, a legendary 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Golem artifact creature token. • Target artifact creature you control gains flying and lifelink until end of turn.
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“Spread poison and spawn artifact tokens by proliferating repeatedly.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Poison counters, Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Proliferate, Artifacts, Planeswalkers, Poison
Strategy
Venser, Corpse Puppet is a compact proliferate engine that rewards you for spreading poison counters and loyalty counters across the table. Your core gameplan is to leverage proliferate triggers—whether from cards like Flux Channeler, Contentious Plan, or planeswalker activations—to either create The Hollow Sentinel (a repeatable 3/3 token) or pump an artifact creature with evasion and lifelink. You're playing a tempo-midrange style that grinds value while slowly poisoning opponents out or dealing combat damage through an evasive army.
The deck thrives on doubling up effects: proliferate triggers fuel both poison counters and your artifact tokens, while those tokens can become flying threats with lifelink to protect your life total. Include artifact synergies like Metallic Mastery or other artifact lords, planeswalkers that generate loyalty counters to proliferate, and low-cost proliferate sources to turn Venser's ability on repeatedly. You win by either accumulating ten poison counters (toxic 1 stacks quickly with proliferate), swinging in with a horde of flying Sentinels, or simply outlasting opponents through damage and lifegain.
This is a cerebral deck that rewards planning your proliferate activations and artifact synergies, but it's not a high-speed combo machine—you have time to think and adapt.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive planeswalkers; budget Prologue to the Feast, Flux Channeler, and Contentious Plan provide proliferate staples at low cost.
Most-Played Cards
Experimental Augury
Thrummingbird
Prologue to Phyresis
Tezzeret's Gambit
Throne of Geth
Drown in Ichor
Vraska's Fall
Infectious Inquiry
Flux Channeler
Voidwing Hybrid
Contentious Plan
Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
Inclusion = % of Venser, Corpse Puppet decks running this card. +lift = percentage-point boost over the format average.
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