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Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Insect · {2}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander
What Vishgraz, the Doomhive 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 Vishgraz enters, create three 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Mite artifact creature tokens with toxic 1 and "This token can't block."
- Keyword · menacemenace
- Keyword · toxictoxic
- AbilityVishgraz gets +1/+1 for each poison counter your opponents have.
What a Vishgraz, the Doomhive deck needs
Plays as ETB value. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
- toxic creatures (it rewards the mechanic by name)
The Vishgraz, the Doomhive deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 19× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 12× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 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
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Vishgraz, the Doomhive
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.
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Skrelv, Defector Mite1 mana
- Venerated Rotpriest1 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Myr Convert2 mana
- Bilious Skulldweller1 mana
- Crawling Chorus1 mana
- Mirrex0 mana
- Bloated Contaminator3 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Airbender Ascension2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
- Flickerwisp3 mana
- Touch the Spirit Realm3 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
- Emiel the Blessed4 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
- Spirited Companion2 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Cauldron Familiar1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Selesnya Signet2 mana
Combos with Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Vishgraz, the Doomhive is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Nim Deathmantle + Ashnod's Altar397 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Eldrazi Displacer + Ashnod's Altar336 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Emiel The Blessed + Ashnod's Altar256 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Nim Deathmantle + Phyrexian Altar108 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Emiel The Blessed + Phyrexian Altar88 decks
- Vishgraz, the Doomhive + Eldrazi Displacer + Krark-Clan Ironworks49 decks
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