Vishgraz, the Doomhive

Vishgraz, the Doomhive is a unique take on poison counters—instead of trying to poison out your opponents (which would take forever with regular infect strategies), you're using poison counters as a resource to pump Vishgraz into an unblockable threat. The deck wants to create tokens and deal combat damage early, stacking poison counters on opponents while your commander grows fatter. You'll lean into token generation, evasion, and go-wide strategies so those 1/1 Mites and other creatures can sneak through for poison.

Your wincon is combat damage plus poison damage—you're not racing to 10 poison counters, you're racing to overwhelm the table with an army of evasive creatures and a massive Vishgraz that scales with every hit. The deck thrives on cheap token makers, anthem effects, and anything that helps creatures slip past blockers. You're in Abzan, so you have access to both aggressive aristocrats payoffs and midrange value engines.

The beauty here is flexibility: you can pivot into sacrifice outlets and recursion (making Vishgraz itself harder to deal with), or go full token swarm with lords and tutors. Either way, your opponents are taking poison damage whether they block or not, and Vishgraz becomes a legitimate evasive closer by the mid-game.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.