<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Serpent Society" href="#" target="_blank">The Serpent Society</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> | Art by <a href="https://scryfall.com/search?q=a%3A%E2%80%9CRimas+Valeikis%E2%80%9D&amp;unique=art">Rimas Valeikis</a></em></p>
<p>There are countless iconic Heroes and Villains from Marvel that have now entered the game of <em>Magic</em>. Plenty of players have built around fan favorites like Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Nick Fury and of course the... <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Serpent Society" href="#" target="_blank">The Serpent Society</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>?</p>
<p>That's right, this unlikely group of characters has become one of the most built-around commanders from this set, and seeing as how deathtouch is my personal <em>favorite</em> keyword, I knew I needed to put a budget list together for this crew.</p>
<p>My name is <a href="https://linktr.ee/pillowfortmtg">Tyler 'Savesya' Bucks</a>, and today we're looking over a $35 deck (based on <a href="https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/696652/magic-marvel-super-heroes-the-serpent-society?irclickid=SfrVsYSKHxycUQrwtpRxjWrOUkuQrgSkNRnNQQ0&amp;sharedid=&amp;irpid=4913290&amp;irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;utm_source=impact&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=Space+Cow+Media&amp;Language=English">TCGplayer</a> prices) that'll surely be nicer to your wallet than it will be to your opponents.</p>
<h2>What Does The Serpent Society Bring to the Table?</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="The Serpent Society"></div></div>
<p>Slithering in from the Marvel Universe is a band of snake-adjacent Villains known as <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Serpent Society" href="#" target="_blank">The Serpent Society</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. This commander doesn't just feature one of the wildest ward costs I've ever seen, it's also centered around two incredibly dastardly deck themes: <a href="https://edhrec.com/tags/deathtouch">deathtouchers</a> and forcing people to <a href="https://edhrec.com/tags/sacrifice">sacrifice</a> their nontoken creatures.</p>
<p>I built this deck to be focused on loading up the board with scary threats, and being in control of when the members of your team leave the battlefield. This build will be a lot of fun for you to pilot, but will definitely put a target on your back, so continue at your own peril!</p>
<h2>Key Deathtouchers</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Fynn, the Fangbearer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Aveline de Grandpré"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Hooded Blightfang"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fynn, the Fangbearer" href="#" target="_blank">Fynn, the Fangbearer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Here's one of the important creatures in the deck. It puts your opponents' time in the game on a scary ticking clock, because every creature they let get through adds up quickly when it comes to poison counters.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Aveline de Grandpré" href="#" target="_blank">Aveline de Grandpré</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: A lot of the deathtouchers in this deck have a smaller power, which makes this legend so useful. It can buff up your board as the game goes on, which could possibly force people to make painful blocks in order to stop your team from growing.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Hooded Blightfang" href="#" target="_blank">Hooded Blightfang</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Sure, killing planeswalkers is nice, but that drain effect is the true star here. Now whenever you throw your creatures into combat, you're already changing up life totals.</li>
</ul>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Archpriest of Shadows"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Poison-Tip Archer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vraska, the Silencer"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Archpriest of Shadows" href="#" target="_blank">Archpriest of Shadows</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Since your commander causes your opponents to sacrifice their creatures when your deathtouchers bite the dust, having a way like the Archpriest to bring them right back into play can help ensure that you're consistently staying ahead of the rest of the table.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Poison-Tip Archer" href="#" target="_blank">Poison-Tip Archer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: This creature can be absolutely devastating in the deck. Whenever one of your creatures dies, that causes upwards of three more to get sacrificed around the table, which in turn would drain everyone else's life total by four, thus helping you quickly close out your games.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vraska, the Silencer" href="#" target="_blank">Vraska, the Silencer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: As your opponents sacrifice their creatures, Vraska will steal them in order to add them to your board as Treasures. This'll allow you to utilize some different effects, while also ramping you into the late game.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Card Advantage</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Harvester of Souls"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Deathreap Ritual"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Morbid Opportunist"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Harvester of Souls" href="#" target="_blank">Harvester of Souls</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Here's a perfect top end card draw engine for a deck this brutal. Not only does it have deathtouch itself, but it also lets you refill your hand as things die around the table.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Deathreap Ritual" href="#" target="_blank">Deathreap Ritual</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: This is an enchantment that I'm always looking to add to lists, but it sometimes feels like it isn't reliable enough. However, it fits perfectly in with this one, since it checks on each end step, and allows you to draw if you block someone's ill-advised attack.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Morbid Opportunist" href="#" target="_blank">Morbid Opportunist</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: As I've said many times already, there's going to be a lot of creatures dying because of this deck's gameplan. Which means that you could be drawing a card on each turn around the table, making you barely notice that once per turn clause on this Rogue.</li>
</ul>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Plumb the Forbidden"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Witherbloom Charm"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Vampiric Rites"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Plumb the Forbidden" href="#" target="_blank">Plumb the Forbidden</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Having the control over when your creatures die is important, and this is one of the best versions of that type of effect in the deck. With this spell, you can choose exactly which members of your team you'll let go, and replace them with a new card in the exchange.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Witherbloom Charm" href="#" target="_blank">Witherbloom Charm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Removing a small permanent and cashing in a creature for two cards is great of course, but I actually do want to highlight that life gain option here. This deck is going to make you the enemy at the table, so believe it or not, spending two mana at instant speed to gain five life could buy you one more turn in order to close things out.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Vampiric Rites" href="#" target="_blank">Vampiric Rites</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: This enchantment is so useful in the deck, since it acts as an onboard threat that you get to utilize at any time. Leaving up two mana as you pass the turn means that the other players at the table have to factor in your ability to cause everyone else to sacrifice a nontoken creature, especially when it's the most opportune time for you.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Removal &amp; Protection</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Prizefight"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Acidic Slime"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Immoral Bargain"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Prizefight" href="#" target="_blank">Prizefight</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: A fight spell is such a rough thing for an opponent to deal with in this list, since not only will their creature die, but yours likely will as well, meaning there'll be another round of sacrificing that happens after that.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Acidic Slime" href="#" target="_blank">Acidic Slime</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Back when I first started playing Commander, this Ooze was in every green deck around, so being able to include it here is a treat. Plus, it's still a solid creature after all these years, hitting play and dealing with a problematic permanent, while also having deathtouch itself.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Immoral Bargain" href="#" target="_blank">Immoral Bargain</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Now here's a very tricky board wipe in this list. Say you have four deathtouch creatures that you aren't too attached to; well, just cash them in for this spell, destroy four problematic things, and force each opponent to sacrifice four nontoken creatures in the process...that's pretty brutal if you ask me.</li>
</ul>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Undying Malice"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Revitalizing Repast"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Golgari Charm"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Undying Malice" href="#" target="_blank">Undying Malice</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Here's the perfect type of protection piece for this kind of deck. Blocking with a deathtoucher and then targeting it with this spell will allow you to remove the attacking creature, make people sacrifice something, and still get your own creature back even better than ever.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Revitalizing Repast" href="#" target="_blank">Revitalizing Repast</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Giving a member of your team a counter and indestructible is so amazing for this strategy, since it protects what you need as it enters combat or gets targeted by removal, while also still just being a two-color land on the other side.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Golgari Charm" href="#" target="_blank">Golgari Charm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: The first two modes on this card are great in their uses, but that last mode to regenerate your board is the thing that'll mess with your opponents the most, since one of the biggest ways to deal with this deck is to just cast a sweeper to try and remove everything at once. <em>Note: regeneration is a replacement effect, so if your creatures would die, instead they do not. So, this won't cause your opponents to sacrifice their creatures, but it's still a powerful way to maintain your own board state.</em></li>
</ul>
<h2>A Few More Highlights</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Full Steam Ahead"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Unearth"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Ogre Slumlord"></div></div>
<ul>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Full Steam Ahead" href="#" target="_blank">Full Steam Ahead</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Combining trample with deathtouch is such a nasty combination, since trample just asks you to assign lethal damage to a blocker, and deathtouch makes only a single point of damage lethal, allowing the rest of your creature's power to go through. Full Steam Ahead forcing people to only choose one blocker ensures that even more power will get across during an attack.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Unearth" href="#" target="_blank">Unearth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: I love including this card in any deck that has a commander with mana value three or less, since it could be a way to get around the tax of recasting it. Plus, this deck is filled with smaller creatures, which means this'll have plenty of targets when you need them.</li>
<li><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Ogre Slumlord" href="#" target="_blank">Ogre Slumlord</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>: Here's a truly wild top end threat for this deck. As more creatures die around the table, you're making Rats with deathtouch, and if they die, more creatures will get sacrificed, and so on. Not only does this Ogre build you a board, but it also pushes your main plan forward in order to take over the game.</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Deck List</h2>
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*1 The Serpent Society
[/Commander]
[Creatures]
*1 Acidic Slime
*1 Ambush Viper
*1 Archpriest of Shadows
*1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
*1 Aveline de Grandpré
*1 Bilious Skulldweller
*1 Burrog Banemaker
*1 Deadly Recluse
*1 Dragon Sniper
*1 Engine Rat
*1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
*1 Frog Butler
*1 Fynn, the Fangbearer
*1 Gifted Aetherborn
*1 Glissa Sunslayer
*1 Gnarlwood Dryad
*1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
*1 Harvester of Souls
*1 Hooded Blightfang
*1 Hornet Queen
*1 Leyline Prowler
*1 Morbid Opportunist
*1 Nighthawk Scavenger
*1 Nightshade Dryad
*1 Noxious Newt
*1 Ogre Slumlord
*1 Poison Dart Frog
*1 Poison-Tip Archer
*1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
*1 Virulent Emissary
*1 Vraska, the Silencer
*1 Wasteland Viper
[/Creatures]
[Instants]
*1 Ashnod&#039;s Intervention
*1 Assassin&#039;s Trophy
*1 Collective Resistance
*1 Corrupted Conviction
*1 Deadly Dispute
*1 Golgari Charm
*1 Infuse with Vitality
*1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
*1 Plumb the Forbidden
*1 Prizefight
*1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
*1 Snakeskin Veil
*1 Tear Asunder
*1 Tragic Slip
*1 Undying Malice
*1 Village Rites
*1 Witherbloom Charm
[/Instants]
[Sorceries]
*1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
*1 Bushwhack
*1 Deadly Brew
*1 Full Steam Ahead
*1 Harmonize
*1 Immoral Bargain
*1 Night&#039;s Whisper
*1 Overrun
*1 Sign in Blood
*1 Unearth
*1 Victimize
[/Sorceries]
[Enchantments]
*1 Deathreap Ritual
*1 Hunter&#039;s Talent
*1 Moldervine Reclamation
*1 Rancor
*1 Vampiric Rites
[/Enchantments]
[Lands]
*1 Command Tower
*1 Conduit Pylons
*1 Exotic Orchard
*1 Festering Thicket
*1 Grim Backwoods
*1 Hissing Quagmire
*1 Llanowar Wastes
*1 Necroblossom Snarl
*1 Path of Ancestry
*1 Surveillance Room
*1 Tainted Wood
*1 Temple of Malady
*1 Twilight Mire
*1 Vernal Fen
*1 Viridescent Bog
*1 Woodland Cemetery
*9 Forest
*9 Swamp
[/Lands]"></span></div>
<h2>My Final Thoughts on The Serpent Society</h2>
<p>So, there you have it, my $35 list for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="The Serpent Society" href="#" target="_blank">The Serpent Society</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. I hope you enjoyed my take on this commander, but I still want to hear from you: did I miss anything extra mean for this one? Let me know in the comments below.</p>
<p>If you're looking for more budget content from me, you can find it right <a href="https://edhrec.com/articles/author/tyler-bucks?utm_source=edhrec" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here on EDHREC</a> as well as on my YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzUtnBZogc1TSttr8eLUK_w/?utm_source=edhrec" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pillow Fort</a>, where I do everything I can to make <em>Magic</em> more accessible for everyone.</p>


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