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Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector

Legendary Creature — Human Hero Villain // Legendary Creature — Symbiote Hero Villain

Eddie Brock wants a deck that puts expensive cards onto the battlefield without paying for them. It also suits a deck that brings big creatures back from the discard pile.

  • Mana cost2 genericblack
  • Black, Red, Green ()
  • Power / toughness3 / 3
  • RarityMythic

When Eddie Brock enters, return target creature card with mana value 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

3 genericblackredgreen: Transform Eddie Brock. Activate only as a sorcery.

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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.

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Cards That Fit Eddie Brock

Picked for what they do in Eddie Brock's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Eddie Brock's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Eddie Brock

explain how Eddie Brock works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

A modal double-faced card can be transformed or be put onto the battlefield transformed. This is a change from previous rules. If an effect instructs you to transform a modal double-faced card on the battlefield, it transforms only if its other face has a permanent type (that is, if its other face isn't an instant or sorcery). If it doesn't, it simply won't transform. Similarly, if an effect attempts to put a modal double-faced card onto the battlefield transformed, it will enter transformed if its back face has a permanent type. If it doesn't, it will simply stay in its current zone.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

Each double-faced card has an icon in the top-left corner of each face. For modal double-faced cards in this set, these icons are a single black triangle for the front face, and a double white triangle for the back face.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

Each face of a double-faced card has its own set of characteristics: name, types, subtypes, abilities, and so on. While a double-faced card is on the stack or battlefield, consider only the characteristics of the face that's currently up. The other set of characteristics is ignored.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

If a creature or a card in a player's hand or graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining its mana value.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

If an effect allows you to play a land or cast a spell from among a group of cards, you may play or cast a modal double-faced card with any face that fits the criteria of that effect.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

If an effect allows you to put a card with particular characteristics onto the battlefield without instructing you to play or cast it, you consider only the characteristics of a modal double-faced card's front face to see if that card qualifies. If it does, it enters the battlefield with its front face up.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

If an effect instructs a player to choose a card name, the name of either face may be chosen. If that effect or a linked ability refers to a spell with the chosen name being cast and/or a land with the chosen name being played, it considers only the chosen name, not the other face's name.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

In the Commander variant, a double-faced card's color identity is determined by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of both faces combined. If either face has a color indicator or basic land type, those are also considered.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

One or both faces of a double-faced card may include a reminder about what's on the other face. This reminder text has no effect on gameplay.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

The mana value of a modal double-faced card is based on the characteristics of the face that's being considered. On the stack or the battlefield, consider whichever face is up. In all other zones, consider only the front face. This is different than how the mana value of other double-faced cards is determined.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

To determine whether it is legal to play a modal double-faced card, consider only the characteristics of the face you're playing and ignore the other face's characteristics.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Sep 2025

While a double-faced card isn't on the stack or battlefield, consider only the characteristics of its front face.

12 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

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Commanders that share the most with Eddie Brock, and what they share.

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