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Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
Legendary Creature — Symbiote Hero · {W}{W}{W}{W}{W} · White commander
When Anti-Venom enters, if he was cast, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
If damage would be dealt to Anti-Venom, prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on him.
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What Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Anti-Venom enters, if he was cast, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- AbilityIf damage would be dealt to Anti-Venom, prevent that damage and put that many +1/+1 counters on him.
What an Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer deck needs
Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ways to return the commander to your hand and recast it (its enter trigger fires only when it was cast — blink does nothing)
- counter doublers and proliferate (it grows only itself with +1/+1 counters)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 8× Refill your hand
- 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Ghoulcaller's Bell1 mana
- Palantír of Orthanc3 mana
- Sequestered Stash0 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Wand of Vertebrae1 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion3 mana
- Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion3 mana
- Grateful Apparition2 mana
- Metastatic Evangel2 mana
- Generous Pup2 mana
- Martyr for the Cause2 mana
- Charmed Stray1 mana
- Political Triumph1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Generous Gift3 mana
- Erode1 mana
- Unwanted Remake1 mana
- Angelic Ascension2 mana
- You Cannot Pass!1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Open the Armory2 mana
- Enlightened Tutor1 mana
- Templar Knight2 mana
- Idyllic Tutor3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
- Loyal Tutor1 mana
- Recruiter of the Guard3 mana
- Search for Glory3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Shatter the Sky4 mana
- Split Up3 mana
- Winds of Abandon2 mana
- Depopulate4 mana
- No Witnesses4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Caretaker's Talent3 mana
- Enduring Innocence3 mana
- Mentor of the Meek3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + With Great Power . . .15,903 decks
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + Pariah15,439 decks
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + Pariah's Shield12,763 decks
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + Gideon's Sacrifice10,562 decks
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion + Walking Ballista207 decks
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Triskelion + Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion42 decks