Deck Name: Sickness. Colors: Blue, Black, and Green. Format: Legacy. Version 12

Creatures: 9 (+ 4 if including Inkmoth Nexus)

1 Ichorclaw Myr                               4 Plague Stinger (black)

4 Blighted Agent (blue)

Instants and Sorceries: 23

4 Commune With Nature (green)    1 Dispel (blue)

2 Go for the Throat (black)              3 Groundswell (green)

4 Invigorate (green)                         2 Might of Old Krosa (green)

3 Mutagenic Growth (green)            3 Ponder (blue)

1 Ultimate Price

Artifact or Enchantment: 6

3 Infiltration Lens

3 Rancor

Land: (22)

1 Darkslick Shores (black, blue)    4 Inkmoth Nexus

4 Breeding Pool (blue, green)        4 basic Forest

4 Mana Confluence (any color)     1 Pendelhaven (green)

2 Watery Grave (black and blue)

2 Verdant Catacombs (black and green)

Sideboard: 15

1 Blight Mamba                             2 Darkslick Shores (above)

1 Dispel (above)                             1 Glistener Elf

1 Groundswell (above)                  1 Infiltration Lens (above)

2 Might of Old Krosa (above)       4 Nature’s Claim

1 Ponder (above)                            1 Primal Rage

Deck Name: Succumb to It. Colors: Black. Format: Pauper. Version: 2.0

Creatures: 14

3 Contagious Nim                                             2 Flensermite

3 Ichorclaw Myr                                               4 Plague Stinger

2 Toxic Nim

Equipment: 6

4 Adventuring Gear                                           SlagwurmArmor

Whispersilk Cloak

Enchantment:

1 Dark Favor

Instants: 9

2 Geth’s Verdict                                             3 Grasp of Darkness

4 Mutagenic Growth

Sorcery: 7

1 Distress                                                          1 Horrifying Revelation

1 Mind Rot                                                        3 Psychic Miasma

1 Raven’s Crime

Land:

Swamp 23

Deck Name: Beaver in Captivity. Color: Blue and Green. Format: Pauper. Version: 1 (edited)

Creatures: 14

1 Blight Mamba

3 Blighted Agent

2 Blight Widow

3 Cystbearer 3

4 Glistener Elf

1 Llanowar Elves

Enchantments: 12

1 Cloak of Mists

4 Curse of Chains

2 Forced Adaptation

4 Spectral Flight

1 Tricks of the Trade

Instants and Sorceries: 11

3 Distortion Strike

3 Groundswell

2 Mutagenic Growth

2 Nature’s Claim

1 Turn Aside

Lands: 23

Evolving Wilds 1

Forests 10

Island 9

Terramorphic Expanse 3

Deck Name: Sickness. Colors: Blue, Black, and Green. Format: Legacy. Version 11

Creatures: 10 (+ 4 if including Inkmoth Nexus)

1 Glistener Elf

1 Ichorclaw Myr

4 Plague Stinger

4 Blighted Agent

Instant and Sorcery: 21

4 Commune With Nature

2 Dispel (blue)

4 Groundswell (green)

4 Invigorate (green)

4 Might of Old Krosa (green)

3 Mutagenic Growth

Enchantment:

4 Rancor

Land: (25)

3 Darkslick Shores

4 Inkmoth Nexus

4 Breeding Pool (blue and green)

5 basic Forest

4 Mana Confluence

1 Pendelhaven (green)

2 Watery Grave (black and blue)

2 Verdant Catacombs (black and green)

Sideboard: 15

Blight Mamba

3 Blight Widow

2 Dispel

2 Glistener Elf

Melira, Sylvok Outcast

Mutagenic Growth

4 Nature’s Claim

Sylvan Might

Deck Name: Succumb to It. Colors: Black. Format: Pauper. Version: 1.0

Creatures: 13

4 Contagious Nim

1 Corpse Cur

1 Flensermite

3 Ichorclaw Myr

4 Plague Stinger



Sorcery: 12

4 Disentomb

2 Distress

1 Horrifying Revelation

1 Mind Rot

3 Psychic Miasma

Raven’s Crime



Instants: 9

2 Geth’s Verdict

3 Grasp of Darkness

4 Mutagenic Growth



Enchantment: 4

2 Crippling Blight

Dark Favor

Relic Putrescence



Land:

22 Swamp



Sideboard:

Accorder’s Shield

4 Adventuring Gear

2 Bladed Pinions

Slagwurm Armor

2 Thrull Retainer



5 Swamp

Deck Name: Desire for Disease. Colors: White and Green. Format: Pauper. Version: 3.0

Instants and Sorceries: 12

4 Assault Strobe

4 Groundswell

3 Mutagenic Growth

4 Vines of Vastwood

Enchantments: 9

Guard Duty

4 Pacifism

3 Primal Frenzy

4 Rancor

Creatures: 13

3 Blight Mamba

2 Cystbearer

4 Ichorclaw Myr

4 Glistener Elf

Lands: 25

4 Evolving Wilds

12 Forest

1 Mountain

1 Plains

3 Selesnya Guildgate

4 Terramorphic Expanse

1st Legacy Deck, Now Titled “Sickness” - Infect/Poison Version 6.0

This deck has 64 cards, and no sideboard.  I understand that some may find that distressing, but I think it is for the best.  This deck now has some kill cards because sometimes that is what is needed.  Really, I was just getting too many pump spells in my hand.  It was overkill.

Creatures: 12

Black

4 Plague Stinger

Blue

4 Blighted Agent

Green

4 Glistener Elf

Instants: 23

Green: 17

3 Groundswell

4 Invigorate

3 Mutagenic Growth

4 Commune With Nature

3 Unnatural Predation

Black: 6

2 Doom Blade

3 Go for the Throat

1 Ultimate Price

Sorceries: 3

Green

3 Might of Old Krosa

Enchantments: 4

Green

4 Rancor

Lands: 22

2 Verdant Catacombs

4 Breeding Pool

2 Watery Grave

3 Darkslick Shores

4 Inkmoth Nexus

2 Gilt-Leaf Palace

4  Forest

1 Pendelhaven

1st Mono Green Pauper Infect Deck 3.1

The reason for this update is that when I played against a Red deck, an opponent of mine was able to make mince meat out of my creatures with kill spells because they were practically all 1 toughness.  Also, as fate would have it, I wasn’t pulling my Cystbearer, Blight Widow, and Blight Mamba cards as much as I would have liked to.  This should help fix that.

Also, another way this deck is optimized is that it is designed to win at a later turn date than before when I was trying for the kill on turn three.  That is, I figure if I put some more beef into my deck, it may be less easy to deal with in the long run.

Creature Cards (20, 18 With Infect)

4             4 Ichorclaw Myr

7             3 Blight Mamba

11           4 Glistener Elf

15           4 Cystbearer

15           0 Rot Wolf

18           3 Blight Widow

20           2 Elvish Herder

Boosters/Pump Cards (20)

4             4 Vines of Vastwood

8             4 Rancor

10           2 Gigantic Growth

14           4 Groundswell

16           2 Mutagenic Growth

18           2 Unnatural Predation

20           2 Sylvan Might

Land

20 Forests

The following are earlier versions of this deck.

http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/02/updated-20-green-pauper-infect-deck.html

http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/01/green-pauper-infect-deck.html

***** Groundswell - Get Your Infect Deck Cookin' Quickly

Get Infect Deck Cookin' Quickly, February 4, 2013

By Craig Nelson Hamilton "Craig Nelson Hamilton" (Sandwich, MA)

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This review is from: Magic: the Gathering - Groundswell - Worldwake

Want to win on your second turn with an Infect deck? Get 4 of these for your deck and help make your dreams of domination come true. This card is nearly impossible to beat with Glistener Elf and other Infect cards that cost 2 mana to cast.

***** Glistener Elf - Essential for My Poison Legacy Deck.

Essential for My Poison Legacy Deck. This review is from: Magic: the Gathering - Glistener Elf - New Phyrexia The main reason why I love this card is that I can play it on turn one. That means by turn 2 or turn 3 I am thinking about taking my opponent out of the game. I don't recommend a 2nd turn kill because it puts all of your might into one blast, and if that is countered by your 3rd or 4th turn your attack may not be sufficient to win the game. However, if you want to clean up your opponent quick, which is the best idea in Legacy, this card is essential.

***** Essential for My Legacy Infect Deck: Magic: the Gathering - Mutagenic Growth - New Phyrexia

Essential For My Infect Legacy Deck This review is from: Magic: the Gathering - Mutagenic Growth - New Phyrexia The conversion for this card if you are playing an infect deck is that you may take 2 damage in order to play it. For adding 2 poison counters in return for playing this card is nothing, provided that you already have a card like Distortion Strike, Rancor, Plague Stinger (that you are flying over your opponent), or especially Blighted Agent.

1st Legacy Deck Version 1.1 – Win In 3 to 5 Turns

This blog is out of date.  Here are the updates from newest to oldest:
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/05/1st-legacy-deck-infectpoison-version-50.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-30.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2012/10/improved-poison-legacy-deck-black-blue.html
http://craig-hamilton-mtg.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-fairly-casual-poison-legacy-deck-that.html


Land: 24

4 Forest

2 Island

2 Swamp

4 Evolving Wilds (Sacrifice and search for a basic land)

4 Terramorphic Expanse (Sacrifice and search for a basic land)

2 Gilt-Leaf Palace (Black and Green)

Seaside Citadel (Green, Blue and White)

Salt Marsh (Blue and black)

2 Jwar Isle Refuge (Blue and black)

1 Arcane Sanctum (Blue and black {white})

1 Dark Slick Shores (Blue and black)

Instants and Sorcery: 22*

4 Mutagenic Growth

3 Groundswell

2 Titanic Growth

1 Monstrous Growth

3 Giant Growth

1 Might of Oaks

4 Distortion Strike

4 Commune With Nature

*The essential goal is to boost creatures

Artifacts: 1

Strider Harness

Enchantments

2 Tricks of the Trade

Creatures: 12**

4 Plague Stingers

4 Blighted Agent

1 Hand of Praetors

1 Corpse Cur

1 Putrefax

1 Blight Mamba

**Because of “Commune With Nature,” it is as if this deck has 16 or more creatures though it actually only has 12.

This blog is out of date. 

*** Prey’s Vengeance – One of the First I Ever Owned, and Possibly Capable as a Winner Using Poison

Prey’s Vengeance predates the idea of dealing damage via poison counters, and at the time it came out is was not a very useful card.  Likewise, all the reviews of cards I write are dated, of course.  That is all MTG cards are usually to a certain extent, as MTG can seemingly resurrect any card it wants and make it an awesome card, especially as later sets come out, which of course is subject to the idea that Magic the Gathering will always continue to put out newer cards.  Paying 1 mana to deal 4 damage is a pretty good deal.  If you are using poison, then it is a fairly awesome deal.  The problem with this card is that it deal the damage over 2 turns, and if you are using poison, you should be thinking of winning during turn 3, where Prey’s Vengeance may be consider of falling short of that, as it will most likely require at least 4 turns to win if you are playing poison.
Using the formula I discussed in my review of Contagious Nim, if you are playing poison then it is possible to consider that Prey’s Vengeance is a card where it is as giving +4/+4 for 1 mana over the course of 2 turns, a total of +8/+8.  That’s really good, but if you are not playing poison, then currently this is not a great card.  It would have been awesome if it were a common, and thus could be played in the Pauper format.  However, it is an uncommon, and to my knowledge MTG has yet to create a format that focuses on the use of uncommon cards.  However, this card is likely to become more useful if a format evolved to focus around playing uncommon cards, but in my opinion there is already enough formats though I might consider making a deck for another type of formats than the ones that currently exists.