Agent Venom

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Agent Venom is a 3cmc flash menace 2/3 that converts nontoken creature deaths into draw-a-card-lose-1-life triggers — a black Skullclamp-adjacent engine on a relevant body. Signature in aristocrats and sacrifice shells where creature deaths are plentiful and repeatable card-draw is at a premium. The nontoken restriction means go-wide token strategies get minimal value from it, while creature-dense midrange and sacrifice decks thrive. Flash enables reactive deployment as a combat trick or in response to removal, adding tempo flexibility.

• The nontoken restriction is the key limiting factor — it actively punishes token-heavy sacrifice builds (Ophiomancer, Bitterblossom tokens don't trigger it) and pushes Agent Venom toward decks with real creature density like aristocrats or midrange sacrifice.

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• Flash gives Agent Venom surprising versatility: it can be deployed at the end of an opponent's turn, or held up as a surprise blocker while also turning combat deaths into card draw on the same turn it enters.

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• At only 3 mana with flash and menace, Agent Venom is one of the most efficient black card-draw engines available to Soldier tribal decks, where it supports both the type-line synergy and the death-trigger payoff simultaneously.

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• EDHREC rank: #6,856