{"ops":[{"insert":"🕸️ Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector — “The Devouring Web”\nA Jund Aristocratic Symbiote Primer\n> “We are Venom.”\n> — Venom\n> \nCommander\n * Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector\nColors\n * Jund (\\text{Black/Red/Green})\nTheme\n * Spider & Symbiote narrative built over a high-speed Jund sacrifice ecosystem, low-cost reanimation loops, discard/looting velocity, menace-driven combat pressure, and extra-combat permanent-cheating sweeps.\n📊 Deck Composition & Stats\n| Category | Count | Primary Focus |\n|---|---|---|\n| Commander | 1 | Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector |\n| Creatures | 25 | Low-cost utility, Symbiote payoffs, & Spider Hero targets |\n| Artifacts | 8 | Acceleration, utility engines, & The Soul Stone |\n| Instants | 12 | Fast removal, protection, & extra-combat triggers |\n| Sorceries | 10 | Mass reanimation, board wipes, & burst draw |\n| Enchantments | 8 | Token multipliers, menace evasion, & free permanent cheats |\n| Lands | 36 | Utility Jund base, Coffers/Yavimaya engines, & Marvel locations |\n| Total | 100 | Fully Audited & Standardized |\n * Bracket: Bracket 3 (High Bracket 3 / Low Bracket 4 in creature-heavy pods)\n * Power Level: ~8.5 / 10\n * Salt Level: ~46%\n🌋 Deck Philosophy: The Five Layers of the Web\nThis is not a passive Spider deck hiding behind reach blockers. It is an interconnected food chain where creatures serve multiple purposes over the course of a game. A single card will:\n> Enter \\rightarrow generate value \\rightarrow attack \\rightarrow sacrifice to Venom \\rightarrow draw cards \\rightarrow possibly trigger something like Agent Venom or Grave Pact \\rightarrow hit the graveyard \\rightarrow recur back \\rightarrow repeat.\n> \n * Graveyard Velocity & Discard: Looting and targeted discard (Daily Bugle Newspaper, Villainous Hideout) feed Eddie Brock’s 1-drop target pool while triggering immediate payoffs (Lady Spider, Spider-Man, New Champion).\n * Venom Conversion: Venom attacks, sacrifices a creature, draws X cards, and cheats a permanent (\\le X) directly onto the battlefield.\n * Menace & Combat Multiplication: Stacking Menace via Venom, J. Jonah Jameson, Daily Bugle Building, and Alien Symbiosis makes blocking ridiculously difficult for your opponents. Combining this with extra combats (Savage Beating, Relentless Assault) triggers Venom's engine multiple times in a single turn.\n * Sacrifice Payoffs: Converts creature deaths into asymmetric table-wide sacrifice (Grave Pact) and additional card draw (Agent Venom).\n * Spider-Verse Engine & Synergy: Synergizes token doublers (Parallel Lives), legend-rule removal (Spider-Verse), top-deck creature cheating (Web of Life and Destiny), engine doubling (Peter Parker's Camera), and mass mana scaling (Three Tree City).\n👑 Commander: Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector\n> Eddie Brock \\{2\\}\\{\\text{B}\\}\n> Legendary Creature — Human Hero Villain (3/3)\n> When Eddie Brock enters, return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.\n> \\{3\\}\\{\\text{B}\\}\\{\\text{R}\\}\\{\\text{G}\\}: Transform Eddie Brock. Activate only as a sorcery.\n> Venom, Lethal Protector\n> Legendary Creature — Symbiote Hero Villain (5/5)\n> Menace, Trample, Haste\n> 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.\n> \n💡 Timing & Math Note:\nEddie acts as your early-game recycling engine. Transform into Venom when a mid-range sacrifice target is ready to swing. Sacrificing a creature with mana value X lets you cheat a permanent with mana value X or less from your hand onto the battlefield (e.g., sacrificing a 4-drop lets you cheat a \\le 4-mana permanent). Note that Venom's ability puts the permanent onto the field—it does not cast it.\n🩸 The Venom Sacrifice Hierarchy\n * 1-Drops (Masked Meower, Radioactive Spider, Spinneret and Spiderling): Incremental draw (1 card), drops cheap ramp/Treasures, and fuels Eddie’s front-face recursion loop.\n * 2–3 Drops (Spider-Man, New Champion; Black Cat, Cunning Thief; Opposition Agent): Core mid-game fuel after securing ETB or discard value. (Keep Spider-Punk on board if riot haste or spell counter-protection is active).\n * 4-Drops (Carnage, Crimson Chaos; Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy; Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly; Spider-Man, Web-Spinner): Major hand refills (4 cards) to cheat game-defining permanents (Web of Life and Destiny, Grave Pact, Spider-Verse, Parallel Lives). Carnage is an elite 4-drop target: he recurs a creature on entry, then draws 4 cards and cheats a 4-MV permanent when eaten.\n * 5+ Drops (Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon; Gwenom, Remorseless): Apex engines and finishers. Only sacrifice them to set up mass reanimation or when holding guaranteed recursion.\n☢️ Radioactive Spider — The Fateful Bite Toolbox\nPaying \\{2\\} to sacrifice Radioactive Spider (\\{\\text{G}\\}, 1/1 Reach/Deathtouch) lets you search for a Spider Hero. As a 1-drop, Eddie Brock repeatedly returns it from the graveyard, giving you a repeatable Spider tutor.\n * 🖤 Gwenom, Remorseless (MV 5, 4/4): Top apex target. Draws 5 off Venom, generates Treasure value, enables playing cards off the top of your deck, and triggers Garruk's Uprising upon entry due to her 4 power.\n * 🕷️ Spider-Man, Web-Spinner (MV 4): Premium combat cheat target. Possesses Double Strike and Haste; when he attacks, target creature can't block that turn. Cheating him in tapped and attacking off Venom or extra combats completely breaks wide defenses.\n * 👻 Ghost-Spider, Gwen Stacy (MV 4): Mass burn finisher. Deals damage equal to your attacking creature count on attack.\n * 🕷️ Spider-Punk (MV 2): Protection target. Grants riot and prevents your spells/abilities from being countered.\n * 🕸️ Spider-Man, New Champion (MV 3): Discard payoff. Converts discard triggers into direct ping damage across opponents.\n * 🕷️ Spider-Gwen, Free Spirit (MV 3): Rummage engine. Drives draw/discard loops to fuel the graveyard.\n * 🐱 Masked Meower (MV 1): Low-end engine target to reset Eddie’s resurrection chain.\n * 🕷️ Lady Spider, Maybelle Reilly (MV 2): Discard buffer. Distributes +1/+1 counters across Spiders whenever cards are discarded.\n * 🕷️ Spiders-Man, Heroic Horde (MV 3): Tribal deployment for instant token width.\n * 🕷️ Spinneret and Spiderling (MV 1): Scaling attack threat that builds early board presence.\n * 🕷️ Scarlet Spider, Kaine (MV 3): Evasive menace/deathtouch body with Mayhem discard utility.\n * 🕷️ Scarlet Spider, Ben Reilly (MV 4): Resilient trampling combat threat.\n💎 The Soul Stone — The Eternal Graveyard Engine\n> The Soul Stone \\{1\\}\\{\\text{B}\\}\n> Legendary Artifact — Infinity Stone (Indestructible)\n> \\{\\text{T}\\}: Add \\{\\text{B}\\}.\n> \\{6\\}\\{\\text{B}\\}, \\{\\text{T}\\}, Exile a creature you control: Harness The Soul Stone.\n> \\infty — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.\n> \nThe Soul Stone is the deck's primary late-game reanimation engine. Its indestructibility protects the seven-mana harness investment. Once activated, it returns a creature from the graveyard at every upkeep, turning your stocked graveyard into a permanent second hand.\n⚙️ Engines, Support & Key Card Mechanics\nDiscard, Rummage & Treasure Production\n * Daily Bugle Newspaper: \\{2\\}, \\{\\text{T}\\} to draw a card, discard a card, and create a Treasure token. Provides repeatable looting and acceleration while triggering discard payoffs.\n * J. Jonah Jameson: Whenever a creature you control with menace attacks, create a Treasure token. Can also suspect a creature (giving it menace and preventing it from blocking). Turns Venom, Alien Symbiosis, and Daily Bugle Building into a massive combat-based Treasure generator.\n * Lady Spider, Maybelle Reilly & Spider-Man, New Champion: Converts discard triggers into +1/+1 counter distributions and table-wide ping damage.\nSacrifice & Trigger Amplification\n * Agent Venom: Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card and lose 1 life. Layers directly onto Venom sacrifices, Deadly Dispute, and combat deaths to turn creature losses into massive hand growth.\n * Grave Pact: Forces table-wide sacrifices whenever Venom eats a creature on attack.\n * Peter Parker's Camera: \\{2\\}, \\{\\text{T}\\}, remove a film counter to copy an activated or triggered ability you control. Allows you to duplicate attack triggers, death triggers, or engine activations (Note: copying Venom's trigger requires sacrificing a second creature during the copied resolution to get the second draw/cheat).\nEnchantments & Protection\n * Garruk's Uprising: Gives your board Trample and draws a card whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control. Triggers off high-power Venom cheats like Carnage, Ghost-Spider, and Gwenom.\n * Web of Life and Destiny: 8-mana enchantment with Convoke. At the beginning of combat on your turn, look at the top five cards of your library and put a creature card from among them directly onto the battlefield.\n * Spider-Verse: Removes the Legend Rule for Spiders. Once per turn, when you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand (e.g., from graveyard or exile), copy it.\n * Parallel Lives: Doubles all token generation.\n * Lightning Greaves: Equip \\{0\\} to grant Haste and Shroud. Protects key engines (Venom, Soul Stone enablers) and allows newly cast/reanimated utility creatures to act immediately.\n⚡ Instants, Sorceries & Reanimation\n * Extra Combats: Savage Beating & Relentless Assault untap Venom to trigger his sacrifice/draw/cheat mechanism multiple times in a single turn.\n * Instant Interaction & Protection: Go for the Throat, Infernal Grasp, Terminate, Beast Within, Heroic Intervention, Silkguard, and Arachnogenesis.\n * Mass Reanimation & Board Clears: Behold the Sinister Six! reclaims up to 6 distinct creatures from your graveyard; Damnation resets heavy enemy boards.\n * Finishers: Triumph of the Hordes end-games by giving your Spider/Symbiote swarm infect and trample.\n🌎 Land Strategy & Mana Base\n * Three Tree City (Name: Spider): Counts every Spider you control—both token and nontoken—turning the land into a scaling mana pool.\n * Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth: Converts all lands into Swamps to fuel massive late-game mana production for transform costs and high-cmc spells.\n * Swarmyard: Instant-speed regeneration specifically protecting Spiders.\n * Daily Bugle Building & Villainous Hideout: Marvel utility lands that grant menace to legendary threats or enable Villains to connive.\n * Fixing & Utility: Multiversal Passage, Training Compound, Reflecting Pool, Ziatora's Proving Ground, Underground Mortuary, and Undergrowth Stadium.\n📋 Strategy Guide & Matchup Profile\nStrengths:\n * ✅ Resilient, Layered Engine: Highly adaptable—pivots smoothly between graveyard recursion, token swarms, extra combats, and asymmetric board locks.\n * ✅ High Engine Velocity: Looting and sacrificing feed continuous card draw (Agent Venom, Garruk's Uprising, Venom).\n * ✅ Evasive Treasure Aggro: Menace attackers combined with J. Jonah Jameson turn combat into immediate mana acceleration.\nWeaknesses:\n * ⚠️ Venom Attack Dependency: Primary permanent-cheating engine relies on declaring attacks with Venom.\n * ⚠️ Targeted Graveyard Exile: Early exile effects (Farewell, Rest in Peace) disrupt Eddie's 1-drop setup phase.\nMulligan Guide:\n * Ideal Opening Hand: 3 Lands (ensuring early Black and Green access), 1 Low-cost Creature / Discard Engine (Masked Meower, Radioactive Spider, Daily Bugle Newspaper), 1 Discard / Ramp Outlet (Thrill of Possibility, Nature's Lore), 1 Protection or Removal Spell (Heroic Intervention, Infernal Grasp).\n * Rule of Thumb: Pitch hands heavy on 5+ CMC threats if you lack early discard or ramp outlets. Eddie requires early graveyard setup before Venom takes over the battlefield.\n> “Are you the hunter, or are you the prey?”\n> \n"}]}