When Eddie Brock enters, return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
: 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.
Cast Eddie Brock to reanimate a cheap creature, build a board of small bodies, then flip into Venom and start attacking. Each Venom attack lets you sacrifice a creature to draw cards equal to its mana value and cheat a permanent of that value or less into play, turning combat into a card-advantage and ramp engine. You grind value through repeated sacrifice loops and close with a big evasive threat or assembled combos.
Built-in recursion and card advantage in Jund colors, the best sacrifice palette in the format
Venom's attack trigger both refills your hand and cheats permanents into play, snowballing fast
Menace, trample, and haste make Venom an immediate evasive threat the turn it flips
Flexible value engine that rewards tokens, treasure, and aristocrats synergies
Venom must connect in combat for its payoff, so it's vulnerable to removal, blockers, and Fog effects
The flip costs a full and only works at sorcery speed, slowing your tempo
Eddie's ETB only hits MV 1 or less, limiting early reanimation targets
Needs a steady supply of fodder creatures or the attack trigger does nothing
Three-color mana base with double-pip flip cost demands careful fixing
Doubles down on sacrifice card draw and grows huge alongside Venom's value engine.
Add fast mana and ritual effects (Sol Ring, Dockside Extortionist, Treasure makers) to flip Venom ahead of curve, and tighten the creature base toward cheap recursive bodies that love being sacrificed (Persist creatures, Reassembling Skeleton). Layer in payoff stacking—Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Pitiless Plunderer—so each sacrifice does triple duty, then top with selective tutors (Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Intent) to find your engine pieces. For a higher ceiling, build toward a sacrifice combo finish like Mayhem Devil with a free-sacrifice token loop.
Legendary Creature — Human Hero Villain // Legendary Creature — Symbiote Hero Villain
