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Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Hero Villain // Legendary Creature — Symbiote Hero Villain · {2}{B} // {3}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red commander

When Eddie Brock enters, return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. {3}{B}{R}{G}: Transform Eddie Brock. Activate only as a sorcery. Menace, trample, haste Whenever Venom attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw X cards, then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield, where X is the sacrificed creature's mana value.

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What Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 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 Eddie Brock enters, return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Activated ability{3}{B}{R}{G}: Transform Eddie Brock. Activate only as a sorcery.
• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Venom attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw X cards, then you may put a permanent card with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield, where X is the sac
• Keyword · menacemenace
• Keyword · trampletrample
• Keyword · hastehaste

What an Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• expensive permanents worth cheating into play
• evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine; it has haste)

The Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 14× Expensive on paper, cheap to actually cast — the flip payoff for a mana-value damage trigger
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 16× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

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