Corrupting Influence Commander Deck Upgrade Guide

Scavenging Ooze is a 2/2 for {1}{G} that exiles cards from graveyards. It is not a card Ixhel decks usually play.

Venerated Rotpriest is a 1/2 Phyrexian Druid for {G} with toxic 1. Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, target opponent gets a poison counter. A one-drop with toxic, and the highest-scoring card the precon leaves out.

Carrion Call is a four-mana instant that makes two 1/1 Insects with infect. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in ten.

Bloated Contaminator is a 4/4 Phyrexian Beast for {2}{G} with trample and toxic 1. Whenever it deals combat damage to a player, you proliferate. A three-drop that adds a poison counter to every opponent each hit.

Fumigate is a five-mana sweeper that gains life for each creature destroyed. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in sixteen.

Necrogen Rotpriest is a 1/5 for {2}{B}{G} with toxic 2. Whenever a creature you control with toxic deals combat damage to a player, that player gets an additional poison counter, and for {1}{B}{G} a creature with toxic gains deathtouch. A body that doubles toxic damage.

Moldervine Reclamation is a five-mana enchantment that gains life and draws when your creatures die. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in seven.

Infectious Bite costs {1}{G} at instant speed. A creature you control deals damage equal to its power to a creature you do not control, and each opponent gets a poison counter. Removal that is also poison.

Mycosynth Fiend is a 2/2 for {2}{G} that grows with opponents' poison counters. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in seven.

Skrelv's Hive costs {1}{W}. At the beginning of your upkeep you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 Phyrexian Mite with toxic 1 that cannot block, and with corrupted your creatures with toxic have lifelink. A toxic body every turn, and it pays the life back.

Culling Ritual destroys each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less, including your Mites. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in five.

White Sun's Twilight costs {X}{W}{W}: you gain X life and create X Phyrexian Mites with toxic 1 that cannot block, and with X of 5 or more you destroy all other creatures. A flexible army of toxic creatures, and a one-sided wrath at the top.

Windborn Muse is a 2/3 flier for {3}{W} that taxes attackers. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in six.

Drown in Ichor costs {1}{B}. A creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn and you proliferate. Cheap removal that adds a poison counter to every opponent.

Painful Truths draws cards for the colours you spend on it, and it costs life. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in five.

Metastatic Evangel is a 3/1 Phyrexian Human Cleric for {1}{W}. Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you proliferate. A two-drop that adds poison every time you play a creature.

Phyrexian Rebirth is a six-mana sweeper that makes a Horror token. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in five.

Slaughter Singer is a 2/2 Phyrexian Cleric for {G}{W} with toxic 2. Whenever another creature you control with toxic attacks, it gets +1/+1. A two-drop with toxic 2 that makes every other toxic attacker bigger.

Commander's Sphere is a three-mana rock that sacrifices itself to draw a card. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in four, in a deck with Sol Ring and Arcane Signet.

Crawling Chorus is a 1/1 Phyrexian Horror for {W} with toxic 1. When it dies, you create a 1/1 Mite with toxic 1 that cannot block. A one-drop with toxic that leaves another behind.

Merciless Eviction is a six-mana sorcery that exiles all artifacts, creatures, enchantments or planeswalkers. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in four, and it wipes your own small toxic creatures.

Skrelv, Defector Mite is a 1/1 artifact creature for {W} with toxic 1 that cannot block. For {W/P} and a tap it gives another creature toxic 1 and hexproof from a color, and makes it unblockable by creatures of that color. A one-drop that puts poison on the table on turn one.

Golgari Signet is a two-mana rock, in a deck that already has Sol Ring and Arcane Signet. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in four.

Vraska, Betrayal's Sting is a planeswalker for {4}{B}{B/P}. Her 0 draws a card, loses 1 life and proliferates, and her -2 turns a creature into a Treasure. A walker that proliferates every turn, and one of the top-scoring cards the precon leaves out.

Chromatic Lantern is a three-mana rock that fixes colors. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in three.

Tyrranax Rex is an 8/8 Phyrexian Dinosaur for {4}{G}{G}{G} that can't be countered, with trample, ward {4}, haste and toxic 4. One hit puts four poison counters on a player, which turns on Ixhel's corrupted at once.

Norn's Annex is a five-mana artifact that taxes attackers. It is played in about one Ixhel deck in four.

Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon is a 4/4 flying Phyrexian Dragon Skeleton for {3}{B}{B} with infect. It can gain haste for {B} and regenerate for {B}{B}. Infect deals damage to players as poison counters, so a flier with haste reaches corrupted quickly.